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Has the recent push for computer inspections affected you?

jdoggg12

jdoggg12

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I was curious if anyone here has been affected by these new searches. It seems overly intrusive. What was your experience
 
Haven't travelled international in a while, but I travel domestic a bit and it hasn't...yet.
 
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I'm curious. Does this mean I have to get all the porn off my desktop?
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Might be a good idea. As long as it's nothing illegal I don't see why you should worry though. 😛
 
Originally posted by: hellfreeze
So what happens if your laptop is encrypted? Waterboard you? Haha...
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Or how about a Truecrypt hidden partition? And Truecrypt can use dual-layer 256-bit encryption. Good luck getting through THAT. 🙂

You should put just one thing in your encrypted partition:
Nothing but gigabyte after gigabyte of copies of the Rickroll FLV file from Youtube. After spending decades brute-forcing their way into your data, they finally get Rickroll'd.

Then you get waterboarded again. With sulfuric acid.

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: hellfreeze
So what happens if your laptop is encrypted? Waterboard you? Haha...
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Or how about a Truecrypt hidden partition? And Truecrypt can use dual-layer 256-bit encryption. Good luck getting through THAT. 🙂

You should put just one thing in your encrypted partition:
Nothing but gigabyte after gigabyte of copies of the Rickroll FLV file from Youtube. After spending decades brute-forcing their way into your data, they finally get Rickroll'd.

Then you get waterboarded again. With sulfuric acid.
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Haha...that's what I use...except I use that Twofish-AES-Serpent mix for my highly classified nekkid photo's of ex's. Who knows, they might be famous one day! :beer:

...Then I get waterboarded...haha :beer:
 
Originally posted by: hellfreeze


Haha...that's what I use...except I use that Twofish-AES-Serpent mix for my highly classified nekkid photo's of ex's. Who knows, they might be famous one day! :beer:

...Then I get waterboarded...haha :beer:
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You know the rules.

 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: hellfreeze


Haha...that's what I use...except I use that Twofish-AES-Serpent mix for my highly classified nekkid photo's of ex's. Who knows, they might be famous one day! :beer:

...Then I get waterboarded...haha :beer:
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You know the rules.
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:beer: 😀
 
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Have none of you traveled recently? They just ask for you to take your laptop out of the bag, they don't inspect the HDs
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Better take the midget pr0n sticker off my laptop then :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Have none of you traveled recently? They just ask for you to take your laptop out of the bag, they don't inspect the HDs
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We're talking about international travel here. NOT domestic flights.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: hellfreeze
So what happens if your laptop is encrypted? Waterboard you? Haha...
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Or how about a Truecrypt hidden partition? And Truecrypt can use dual-layer 256-bit encryption. Good luck getting through THAT. 🙂
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Is it legal to take that out of the country? I though they only inspected laptops (beyond xraying them) of international travelers. They might not get you for whatever you have encrypted, but they can nail you for exporting encryption technology.
 
Originally posted by: funkymatt
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
Have none of you traveled recently? They just ask for you to take your laptop out of the bag, they don't inspect the HDs
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We're talking about international travel here. NOT domestic flights.
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How recent are these rules, I was in Europe in February and didn't have any greater inspections.
-AE
 
Just use linux and have it set so it doesn't autostart xwindows, they'll see a login that isn't part of a gui and be baffled and say move along. I've never actually had my computer inspected short of seeing if it powers on at an airport, although last time I traveled outside of the country was in 2006.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: hellfreeze
So what happens if your laptop is encrypted? Waterboard you? Haha...
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Or how about a Truecrypt hidden partition? And Truecrypt can use dual-layer 256-bit encryption. Good luck getting through THAT. 🙂
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Is it legal to take that out of the country? I though they only inspected laptops (beyond xraying them) of international travelers. They might not get you for whatever you have encrypted, but they can nail you for exporting encryption technology.
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I'd like to see them break my hidden pr0n partition. I swear I wonder why they even bother. If someone's going to export encrypted data it would be much easier to do so by mailing a candle with a micro sd card in it or just carrying it in their luggage. :roll:
 
It's quite obvious hidden partitions and the like are not going to be found. There was a recent case in CA I believe where the inspectors were looking at the laptop booted up and saw a "Pics" folder or something on the desktop and found child porn in it. He was arrested and it eventually ended up being legal.

Anyway, to answer the original question, when I left and came back from Japan in April they asked me to boot up my eee. Luckily it boots like 15 seconds.. one of them was pretty amazed and started asking me questions about it. I think I was unlucky though because I got hit with a random super-inspection both times. I do find it intrusive, but I do not care enough to fight it and have it end up being some big huge deal where they hold me for 2 hours while they figure out what to do.
 
i don't know how intrusive these searches are...but it would be extremely simple to force the machine to boot off an SD card and the TSA never realizing. with that you could just have a fresh install of linux on there with nothing for them to find. tell them you just bought/reformatted the laptop.
 
Originally posted by: Journer
i don't know how intrusive these searches are...but it would be extremely simple to force the machine to boot off an SD card and the TSA never realizing. with that you could just have a fresh install of linux on there with nothing for them to find. tell them you just bought/reformatted the laptop.
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Go with reformatting.. if you tell them you just bought it you might have to pay duty on it 🙂
 
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