[fredsted]

You can't win here. It will be suspicious to bring no devices, or devices that look like they've just been restored.

[clouddrover]

> It will be suspicious to bring no devices

Just like the Chinese government's Integrated Joint Operations Platform surveillance software. "Not using a smartphone" is one of the 36 data points which mark you out as having "suspicious behaviour":

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/chin...

[anticensor]

Not if you are poor enough.

[jkaplowitz]

That used to be true. Poor people can often afford a smartphone now, even in really poor countries like Ethiopia, not just the US. It may be a crappy old or limited model, but it doesn't have to be a feature phone.