Here's an idea that I've been toying with for several months now. Many modern laptops have an mSATA port in addition to a regular 2.5" SATA hard drive. If you

Here's an idea that I've been toying with for several months now. Many modern laptops have an mSATA port in addition to a regular 2.5" SATA hard drive. If you install a tiny SSD in the mSATA port and move your OS to the SSD, you can enjoy the speed of SSD without giving up the capacity of the hard drive. But what if you installed a large (480GB or 960GB) SSD in the mSATA port and used it for all of your storage needs? Then the regular hard drive becomes completely redundant. But TSA agents are not known for their tech savvy, so most of them will not realize that you're not even using the regular hard drive. So put a decoy OS on the regular hard drive, with no encryption whatsoever. All the encrypted stuff goes on the mSATA SSD instead. Prior to the trip, configure your BIOS to boot from the regular hard drive, and dislocate the mSATA SSD just a couple of millimeters in its slot so that it's not even recognized. When the agent boots the laptop, all he's going to see is a clean OS that takes up the entire hard drive, and even if he takes a disk image, there will be nothing suspicious on it. Now you only need to make up some story along the lines of your computer crashed last week and you had Geeksquad reformat it but you didn't have time to copy all your family photos back from the external drive at home. Well, now that I've spilled the beans on HN, they'll probably try to pull my mSATA SSD the next time I try to enter the US. Shit.