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Seems increasingly clear that you should never cross a border carrying sensitive data. Encrypt and transfer it separately.
by TillE 9y ago
Seems increasingly clear that you should never cross a border carrying sensitive data. Encrypt and transfer it separately.
- Overtonwindow 9y agoI wipe and clean everything before crossing a border, encrypting and storing in the cloud, or encrypt and fedex.
- pc86 9y agoBe careful with using private entities to mail your stuff. Yes, it's encrypted, but they also don't need a warrant to open the package. USPS does. Obviously for international shipping this is going to change based on the country of departure/origin, but something to keep in mind if you actually have a need to be concerned with this type of thing.
- Overtonwindow 9y agoFair point. FedEx was a catch all. USPS would be better. It's encrypted so if they seized it ...they'd have more problems than the encryption as my work is government in nature.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoActually it makes having a Chromebook and two Google accounts seem more and more realistic. Now with Google's cooperation you could have a 'duress' password, and log into your account for them and have Google supply an alternate reality.
- jacquesm 9y agoI would not bet against the fact that those two accounts are linked being known to border patrol / law enforcement.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoProbably, it comes down in the US case to probable cause. Random border searches are probably not going to pick you up by your ID, and having a cover would not be detected. If they were specifically targeting your identity then they might dig deeper. If Google (for instance) would not disclose your 'other' account without a court order, then they wouldn't have access to that information unless they previously got the order. There is another twist here in that there isn't a precedent for them to ask for access to your network presence, they can ask you to 'unlock' hardware in their possession but it does them no good when there is nothing on it. So it pushes them back to having to do things more traditionally (with a warrant). In general it saddens me that we've come to this.
- jacquesm 9y ago> In general it saddens me that we've come to this. No kidding. It's a pretty sad state of affairs all around. The reason I mentioned this is that if the border patrol / the police / the feds / some random official are already aware of your linked accounts and you lie about it that you are in much hotter water than before.
- ChuckMcM 9y agoTrue, but it isn't a 'lie' to type in a password and unlock a device, if the device is completely unlocked. But on such technicalities interesting case law can be built.
- jacquesm 9y agoIf there is one thing I could influence it would be never to be the subject of interesting new case law. Life is pretty short.