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• jrockway 17y ago
  The solution to this problem is to mail your content back to yourself. Customs can search your "papers", but they can't search encrypted packets.
• pyre 17y ago
  I think that kind of stuff just depends on the border guard that you get. I've gone through that border crossing once. It was the middle of the night and the guard saw that we had an orange with us (crossing Canada -> US), so he took the orange and threw it in the trash and let us through. It's definitely a lot less intimidating of a border crossing than the ones in Detroit or Niagara Falls. [ Sort of off-topic: I've had at least two times where I was waved through a border crossing (Detroit) by the guard without even asking to see ID or a passport, but this was back in 2005. On the other hand, I once went across the border for ~20 minutes to drop off a present for someone (sending it in the mail across the border would have taken at least a couple of days) and they told me that I was 'randomly' selected for a full vehicle search once I told them my stay in Canada had been 20 minutes. ]