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No, sorry, it's not. That's already trivial: Take a microSD card with your info. Put it together with a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal into a tightly and well

No, sorry, it's not. That's already trivial: Take a microSD card with your info. Put it together with a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal into a tightly and well wrapped plastic package. Swallow it. Travel. Arrive. Poop. Voila. Also, if you bring big stacks of paper it will often be inspected, since a common way of smuggling currency is putting hundred-dollar bills between the pages of books.

mkup 11y ago
I guess it's better to upload TrueCrypt container somewhere in the cloud and transfer just password/URL. Password/URL may be derived from the first letters of each sentence in the U.S. Constitution or other similar public source of static random data.
- eru 11y ago
  Why not public key cryptography?
  - marcosdumay 11y ago
    Because you can't carry a key.
    - eru 11y ago
      All the keys that are exchanged can be exchanged in plain text.
- vbezhenar 11y ago
  Or just remember password and URL. It's not that hard if you really need to.
theli0nheart 11y ago
I think you (unintentionally?) are proving the OP right. Because it's far easier to swallow and poop out a plastic bag with a microSD card in it than it is to put a piece of paper in your carry-on.</sarcasm> Plus--wouldn't full-body scanners catch something like this?
- godber 11y ago
  Airport/security full body scanners would not catch something like this. They only image through clothing for the most part. They only image through the top layers of skin. See figure 4 in the linked to document: http://www.tek84.com/downloads/Holt-Letter2010-12-2.pdf http://www.tek84.com/downloads/Holt-Letter2010-12-2.pdf
- semi-extrinsic 11y ago
  It depends on the amount of information you want to transfer, and how likely it is that you'll get a full customs inspection. A single microSD card can hold 512 GB of data; try bringing that in paper format through customs.
  - ekianjo 11y ago
    Obviously this technology is not for bringing Terabytes of information with you. But you can put an awful lot of information in .txt format and something like 3 megabytes.
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mkup 11y ago

I guess it's better to upload TrueCrypt container somewhere in the cloud and transfer just password/URL. Password/URL may be derived from the first letters of each sentence in the U.S. Constitution or other similar public source of static random data.

eru 11y ago
Why not public key cryptography?
- marcosdumay 11y ago
  Because you can't carry a key.
  - eru 11y ago
    All the keys that are exchanged can be exchanged in plain text.
vbezhenar 11y ago
Or just remember password and URL. It's not that hard if you really need to.

theli0nheart 11y ago

I think you (unintentionally?) are proving the OP right. Because it's far easier to swallow and poop out a plastic bag with a microSD card in it than it is to put a piece of paper in your carry-on.</sarcasm> Plus--wouldn't full-body scanners catch something like this?

godber 11y ago
Airport/security full body scanners would not catch something like this. They only image through clothing for the most part. They only image through the top layers of skin. See figure 4 in the linked to document: http://www.tek84.com/downloads/Holt-Letter2010-12-2.pdf http://www.tek84.com/downloads/Holt-Letter2010-12-2.pdf
semi-extrinsic 11y ago
It depends on the amount of information you want to transfer, and how likely it is that you'll get a full customs inspection. A single microSD card can hold 512 GB of data; try bringing that in paper format through customs.
- ekianjo 11y ago
  Obviously this technology is not for bringing Terabytes of information with you. But you can put an awful lot of information in .txt format and something like 3 megabytes.

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