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What does shutting it off do? As far as I understand, they can still require a search. I had it happen once when entering Canada, they said if I didn't consent
by bonestamp2 3y ago
What does shutting it off do? As far as I understand, they can still require a search. I had it happen once when entering Canada, they said if I didn't consent to the search they would confiscate my laptop. I let them search it, and obviously they didn't find anything incriminating, but it felt so violating watching them go through all my personal photos.
- dylan604 3y agofull disk encryption keys are not in memory yet
- notfed 3y agoDoes this mean they asked you to unlock it / decrypt it?
- bonestamp2 3y agoYes. If I did not comply they would take the laptop and I would have to get a lawyer to try to get it back.
- AHOHA 3y agoBe thankful they did not take a copy of your hdd for forensics later.
- dylan604 3y agoMaybe they did. Maybe the "search" is just covering the time it takes to run their cloning program. Let that fester ;-)
- bonestamp2 3y agoNo. They did it in front of me and all they did was run a search for JPG and PNG images. Then they went through all of the pictures. They did not attach any hardware/cables to the computer and they did not connect it to a network. That said, this was years ago. I have heard that they do try to clone the drive now.