I think Schneier's making a very dangerous and ignorant suggestion with his latest post. He's not a lawyer, and yet he's dispensing advice that deals more with

I think Schneier's making a very dangerous and ignorant suggestion with his latest post. He's not a lawyer, and yet he's dispensing advice that deals more with legal issues than security ones. There are two things that can happen when they ask to search your encrypted laptop - you can decline, or you can give them the key. If you decline, no matter what cockamamie reason you give, you're going to be dealing with a legal matter, most likely seizure and possibly detainment. Think about it, you get the same result by politely declining and asking for a lawyer. Bruce's 'solution' doesn't solve anything. The outcome is the same, only now you have on record how you went to great lengths to prevent the border agents from reading what was on your laptop. Whereas, if you just shut the fuck up and wait for a lawyer, you can get legal advice before you say something really stupid. As for privileged communications, does he really believe that if they could legally compel you to divulge the key, that they couldn't do the same to your wife? The legal system is not a logical system like your computer. Clever hacks don't always work.