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Supposedly, if your hard drive is encrypted, customs agents can hold your computer indefinitely if you refuse to provide the password. The irony is that gigabyt
by fl3tch 15y ago
Supposedly, if your hard drive is encrypted, customs agents can hold your computer indefinitely if you refuse to provide the password. The irony is that gigabytes of encrypted data cross national borders every second -- over the internet. So dump your important data in an encrypted file and put it on a file sharing web site, or a VPS, or whatever, and download it again when you get across the border. Nobody with "interesting" data (and half a brain) will be physically bringing it across a border. The searches are useless.
- mrdingle 15y agoNobody with "interesting" data (and half a brain) will be physically bringing it across a border. What's super ironic about this legislation is that it makes local law enforcement's job of actually catching criminals harder. No one's going to get caught at the border with anything but parakeets shoved down their pants. And now criminals are forced to use full-disk encryption and secure delete for everything if they want to travel which will likely lead to more security at home and more obstacles for local law enforcement.
- driverdan 15y agoUnless you're traveling to or from a location that won't have a connection or won't have enough bandwidth to support your needs. See the example in the article about the film maker.