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Encrypting all the drives will not work because the authorities in the new country more than likely have the leeway to "kindly request" that you unencrypt the d
by friend_and_foe 4y ago
Encrypting all the drives will not work because the authorities in the new country more than likely have the leeway to "kindly request" that you unencrypt the data for them. I don't need to know the country to know there is a high likelihood that this is true.
Your best bet is to back up all the data from all of them onto one large hard drive, encrypt that, wipe everything and travel with everything but the hard drive. Then let them poke around whatever they want. Maybe keep some stuff like family photos and whatever just so that it doesnt look like you wiped everything before leaving.
If you travel with that many drives you're likely to gather some suspicion, so they're likely to want to poke around.
As far as getting the data to you, you could have a friend or family member mail the drive to you, or have it hooked up to an internet connected FTP server, or even an open VPN or wireguard tunnel to the network it's on with local only access.
- Rygian 4y agoEncryption with veracrypt gives you a second hidden volume accessible over an alternate password, and plausible deniability as to whether it exists.
- friend_and_foe 4y agoYeah I'm aware, but I think sensitive data is best transferred over a less tangible channel. Moving the hardware with the data on it through a channel that necessarily gives custody of it to authorities for any duration is a risky proposition even with tools like veracrypt. All someone has to do is notice a discrepancy between the size on the label and the size showing on disk. The last thing you want to do is give authorities an excuse to hook the proverbial car battery up to your proverbial balls.