Not really, too many people buy burners with credit cards and bank account, then tie them to known emails. Knowing that everything you do on your phone is recorded should be common knowledge, and keeping the payment and accounts anonymous as a necessity should also be common knowledge.
Unfortunately people pay for them with company or personal cards or bank accounts all the time. And even when they pay for them with cash they don’t use throwaway emails.
PS this is from someone who has used burners for 15+ years.
In this scenario, you’re not trying to hide the fact that the burner belongs to you. You are pretending that it’s your main device and everything on there is all the data you have. And therefore, concealing the fact that all your anti-government data is on a separate device in your home country.
They think the burner if your main device, and that’s the point.
You seem to have missed the point.
Not really, too many people buy burners with credit cards and bank account, then tie them to known emails. Knowing that everything you do on your phone is recorded should be common knowledge, and keeping the payment and accounts anonymous as a necessity should also be common knowledge.
Unfortunately people pay for them with company or personal cards or bank accounts all the time. And even when they pay for them with cash they don’t use throwaway emails.
PS this is from someone who has used burners for 15+ years.
I think the point was not having a phone with you when you go through security and not about privacy when you are on the other side
100% agreement. Taking a phone through customs is a surefire method of burning a burner because it gets tied to a passport.
Its more about compartmentization.
In this scenario, you’re not trying to hide the fact that the burner belongs to you. You are pretending that it’s your main device and everything on there is all the data you have. And therefore, concealing the fact that all your anti-government data is on a separate device in your home country.
They think the burner if your main device, and that’s the point.