Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
It would seem prudent to have a colleague at the ready to be able to remotely nuke the phone or device. It would be easy to set up a "duress" word or phrase. But, I don't know how you would be able to make the call while being harassed by CBP unless you could do a 1-button speed dial. It would seem necessary to practice this technique in a more benign setting.
An aide, with a pretty clean device, a few feet and other passengers behind the targeted passenger could trigger a remote wipe the moment they see a receiving party or a diversion to secondary of some sort. Of course the matter becomes more difficult to pull off if the commercial phone service signal/data connectivity is blocked or diverted in one way or another.
It’s just better to travel with a clean burner and pull a Putin.