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If CBP wants to know what's inside your laptop, and you're not an American citizen, your options are to show them or go back to where you came from, and possibl
by tsimionescu 3y ago
If CBP wants to know what's inside your laptop, and you're not an American citizen, your options are to show them or go back to where you came from, and possibly never be allowed back again. Missing a passphrase may mean you're not even presented with this option, though in principle you still should be asked even if the device were completely unlocked and unencrypted, but few would take the second option anyway, so for the majority of travellers, the passphrase is not really extra protection.
- defrost 3y agoIt's proven sufficient to show them what they expect to see. Variations on plausibly deniable rubberhose | TrueCrypt bare metal vmhosts allow for parallel OS's - one that can be booted by default and be "family friendly" with all the apps and photos | IMs etc expected and another (or many) OS's that have non obvious triggers to allow for passphrase entry into journalists document vaults. The evidence for parallel OS's is two fold:- * non obvious drivers almost always overlooked and essentially never noticed in border patrol scans, and * "unused" areas of drive storage with contents indistinguishable from white noise (or multi pass disk shredding).
- tsimionescu 3y agoThat is a while extra level above what was being suggested.