Put everything on a multi-gig mini-SD chip and and let the goons look thru the laptop. Hell, help them look.
They don't trash your box and you keep your data anyway. Face it, they have guns and you don't.
Right now, I’m running Mint Linux 16 on a 16GB micro SD card in my SD card slot. Everything is on the drive, including the operating system, and I can pull it out at a moment’s notice and hide it in any number of places on my person.
Without it, this netbook doesn’t even boot. Heck, I could do a clean install on a different card and take that one with me when I traveled, all the while my “real” files would be safe and secure on the card I left at home.
You have to put the laptop through the scanner. How do you hide the chip without the brownshirts seeing it?
will you help them by pulling your undies down and slapping the vaseline on yourself?
good grief.