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To treat state actors as hostile, there are a few things you can do. When traveling, travel with a wiped/clean system, maybe restore from an image that has cas

To treat state actors as hostile, there are a few things you can do. When traveling, travel with a wiped/clean system, maybe restore from an image that has casual use so as not to be completely clean and arouse suspicion. Then when on the other side of immigration, download your real image. Use something like VeraCrypt to protect your data. You can use this in conjunction with a script running in the background, so if the volume dismounts, any sensitive programs open can be closed automatically. Also set it up as a bosskey type thing so it can auto-dismount and close sensitive programs on a specific key combo. Ideally some form of steganography would be used also, but there is no solution I'm aware of that can hide gigs of data in a movie file or something. If possible, remove vendor keys from SecureBoot and use your own key and sign your own bootloader. Have it boot into Windows unless a specific key combo is pressed, and then it can boot into whatever you want. As a hobby, I'm trying to come up with a way for it to boot into a virtualized windows instance, without giving any signs of it being virtualized. Software like Prey may also be useful, to allow remote locking of the device.

glitchc 3y ago
The challenge is that these are all terribly inconvenient solutions. For ex. what do you do if your flight is delayed and you're stuck in the terminal for an additional few hours? In effect, we are trying to solve a problem with technology that could be better solved with laws limiting powers and adding oversight.
- PrimeMcFly 3y ago
  > For ex. what do you do if your flight is delayed and you're stuck in the terminal for an additional few hours? Consume recreation materials like books or movies, work on stuff that you don't care if a state actor sees, or do work purely remotely on a server you control. > In effect, we are trying to solve a problem with technology that could be better solved with laws limiting powers and adding oversight. It's going to be a long time, probably not in my lifetime, that we would be able to completely trust any state and have such oversight and regulation. We won't get there the way we are going now. I mean I agree with you, it's a better solution, I just don't see it happening anytime soon.

glitchc 3y ago

The challenge is that these are all terribly inconvenient solutions. For ex. what do you do if your flight is delayed and you're stuck in the terminal for an additional few hours? In effect, we are trying to solve a problem with technology that could be better solved with laws limiting powers and adding oversight.

PrimeMcFly 3y ago
> For ex. what do you do if your flight is delayed and you're stuck in the terminal for an additional few hours? Consume recreation materials like books or movies, work on stuff that you don't care if a state actor sees, or do work purely remotely on a server you control. > In effect, we are trying to solve a problem with technology that could be better solved with laws limiting powers and adding oversight. It's going to be a long time, probably not in my lifetime, that we would be able to completely trust any state and have such oversight and regulation. We won't get there the way we are going now. I mean I agree with you, it's a better solution, I just don't see it happening anytime soon.