The Ultimate Holiday Travel Hack: Protect Your Data With a Burner Phone

If you’re traveling abroad this holiday season, prepare for a new, unnerving hurdle at the border: having your phone searched. US border agents are seriously stepping up their device searches, even for returning US citizens. Plus, the process often goes far beyond a quick glance at your personal devices.

According to new figures from US Customs and Border Protection, nearly 15,000 devices were searched in just three months this year, with over a thousand of those searches using advanced tools to copy…