[sionnsar]

Be sure to click through. Your employer's corporate secrets (including software source code) might wind up being public if you enter the country with them on your laptop hard drive -- or anything else electronic. There is no check on this, and the government hasn't a really good track record of keeping private info private.

[sionnsar]

tech ping

[sionnsar]

Not really old tech related, but I am guessing some of the Geezer Geeks are world travelers...

Geezer Geek ping.

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[John Jorsett]

Encrypt your hard drive and ‘forget’ the password. Make sure you have a backup copy (also encrypted) on the internet in case they decide to keep your computer. Or, encrypt individual files and tell them it’s random noise generated by your amateur radiotelescope project.

[cripplecreek]

I discovered this a while back when I was going over my passport application.

[proxy_user]

My company requires all laptops to be encrypted.

It is against company policy to reveal the password to anyone. If there is any problem, just call the legal office and they’ll send a lawyer.

[ShadowAce]

[live+let_live]

Can the Customs Service, read and photocopy the contents of any paper correspondence, books, etc. brought into the country?

[antiRepublicrat]

So I’ll travel with a Mac laptop and type in “Guest” when told. OS X creates empty guest accounts with few privileges on the fly upon log-in, and deletes them upon log-out.

Otherwise in any system just create a dummy account with few privileges and some bogus documents like “Kip Hawley Sucks” (just kidding, that’ll get you seriously harassed, it’s happened). Log in with that.

Both of these center on not having the opening screen where all available accounts are shown.

[PubliusMM]

Encryption, with strong password protection at the OS, and at data level. I don’t think they can force you to divulge password...recent Federal suit, as I recall. And, strong password protection is decent if used correctly. Also, compression helps, too.

The sad part is that our enemies already know this...

[papasmurf]

For my really sensitive stuff, I create a hidden partition, secured by using this method to create secure passwords. If anyone knows a way to crack it, or a better way, please, let me know.