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If you were stopped at a border crossing and asked to unlock your drive for inspection, would you do so? It's not necessary to cross a border anymore with anyt
by PhantomGremlin 10y ago
If you were stopped at a border crossing and asked to unlock your drive for inspection, would you do so?
It's not necessary to cross a border anymore with anything "interesting" on your laptop.
Just push everything of value to the cloud before crossing. Carry a USB drive with an OS on it. Format your laptop before crossing. Let them have fun "inspecting". Oh, and I'd advise doing something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m
before loading the clean OS. That way there's nothing of value on the drive even if forensic tools are used to look for previous data.
Or maybe just use a Chromebook. They can't force you to unlock access to any cloud accounts, can they? Certainly not as a pre-condition for crossing a border? With a court order, yes, but then you definitely need to get an attorney involved to protect you.
- srean 10y agoThe fly in that ointment is that govts tend to have these deniable 'deals' with these major cloud providers. So make sure whatever you push is encrypted well.
- Tomte 10y agoUsually you don't have any right to enter a country, unless you're a citizen. So they can make unlocking any of your accounts a prerequisite for entering.