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Why? Why not just put any data you are worried about on a very small storage medium? Hide that and smuggle it through. Concealing a small SD card must be a lot

by alan_cx 13y ago

Why? Why not just put any data you are worried about on a very small storage medium? Hide that and smuggle it through. Concealing a small SD card must be a lot easier than buggering about with elaborate, and there for suspicious, schemes. Let the TSA do what they like with the laptop. Oh, and whats this assumption about running a safe PC from home? You have read the Snowden stuff, right? And even if you cant go with all that, if you are at the US border, while your PC is in , er, Berlin, who says that as you stand there spooks are at your house raiding all the data they like? You know, if you are of that much interest to the authorities. And if you are not, SD card type thing. Lastly, if one is all doom and gloom (maybe a bit foil hat) about this stuff, like me, I'd assume the buggers had the data I was worried about anyway, if I at some point it had been on an electronic device with communications capabilities.

GigabyteCoin 13y ago
Smuggling data across borders as you suggested could land you in a much larger world of hurt than bringing across a clean laptop, I would imagine. If your desktop was on 24/7 and you're the one who set it up, it would be trivial to determine if somebody other than yourself had physically accessed it. Applebaum's computer equipment was turned off when he left Berlin from what I understand.
- keithnoizu 13y ago
  maybe but a condom and a micro sd card probably isn't super detectable.
6d0debc071 13y ago
> Oh, and whats this assumption about running a safe PC from home? You have read the Snowden stuff, right? And even if you cant go with all that, if you are at the US border, while your PC is in , er, Berlin, who says that as you stand there spooks are at your house raiding all the data they like? You know, if you are of that much interest to the authorities. And if you are not, SD card type thing. ------------------------- Encrypt files with a suitably long pass-phrase, upload to some random server somewhere, set home computer to keep over-writing its HD & memory/whatever data-destroying activity you favour. Travel to other country, buy a laptop from a store selected by fair dice throw, download file and decrypt it.

by alan_cx 13y ago

GigabyteCoin 13y ago

Smuggling data across borders as you suggested could land you in a much larger world of hurt than bringing across a clean laptop, I would imagine. If your desktop was on 24/7 and you're the one who set it up, it would be trivial to determine if somebody other than yourself had physically accessed it. Applebaum's computer equipment was turned off when he left Berlin from what I understand.

keithnoizu 13y ago
maybe but a condom and a micro sd card probably isn't super detectable.

6d0debc071 13y ago

> Oh, and whats this assumption about running a safe PC from home? You have read the Snowden stuff, right? And even if you cant go with all that, if you are at the US border, while your PC is in , er, Berlin, who says that as you stand there spooks are at your house raiding all the data they like? You know, if you are of that much interest to the authorities. And if you are not, SD card type thing. ------------------------- Encrypt files with a suitably long pass-phrase, upload to some random server somewhere, set home computer to keep over-writing its HD & memory/whatever data-destroying activity you favour. Travel to other country, buy a laptop from a store selected by fair dice throw, download file and decrypt it.