>“Within an hour of landing in China, there will be malware

>>60570239
Use an international dumbphone for international travel and bring a book or watch television for entertainment while in China.

I have no interest nor need to physically move my body to China

VPN

/thread

>>60570239

install some obscure OS on an ancient piece of shit laptop, bring a portable DVD player with some DVDs, get a dumbphone and an MP3 player.

>>60570256
>>60570277
But I'm going there for a year and need my computer.

>>60570277
>DVDs

what, that's gonna keep you occupied for all of 3 days?

>>60570239
What could go wrong when China uses NSA backdoors.

>>60570286

Then deal with it.

Get linux and literally close every single fucking port on it except HTTP/HTTPS and maybe SSH.

>>60570286
You still can install obscure OS.

Read the article from where the quote was taken
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/how-to-keep-your-mobile-devices-secure

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>>60570286
Install Hardened Gentoo

>>60570330
>Always password protect a laptop, and where possible, encrypt all data on the device—but understand that data encryption is illegal in some countries (notably China and Russia)

>>60570239
It's just some propaganda dumbass.

>>60570303

you can buy bootleg dvds in china

i'm pretty sure even grocery stores give you complimentary rips of hunger games and harry potter.

it's fucking china.

>>60570239
It's bogus. There is no magical haxing field covering Chinese territory.

>>60570380
>data encryption is illegal in some countries (notably ... Russia)
Bullshit

>>60570286
Buy a Chromebook, the burner phone of laptops

>>60571697
>chromebook
>burner phone
>cheapest prices start at $150
You know, I think it's cheaper to buy some used notebook

It's for the retards that live from Starbucks to Starbucks who have their devices set to automatically connect to all wifi.

>>60571794
>tickets to china + lodging
>cheapest prices start at $1000

$150 for a burner device isn't THAT bad in this instance.

>>60570239
Why on earth would you ever want to enter China?