[SGVLUG] interesting, border inspection issues

Dan Borne danborne.kde at gmail.com
Fri May 9 12:57:32 PDT 2008


Has anyone ever thought of just putting your computer in a foreign language?
For some reason I think that not many United States-Canada Border Guards
know German

2008/5/9 matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com>:

> > One thing in the article caught my attention, though -- he suggested
> > storing the data on DVD's and fed-ex'ing them to your destination (if
> > they have "slow" connections there) -- I realize this could get into
> > the plausible deny-ability area, but wouldn't that shipment be
> > subject to search?  (I don't know what international shipping of
> > DVD's entails...)
>
> Yes.
>
> however, the suggestion was to have the DVD encrypted...
>
>
> another idea I thought was interesting, was to assign
> the worker a laptop which has been "cleaned"
> with 2 accounts on it... ONE for them ..
> and ONE for the company, and put the companies info
> into a encrypted file.
>
> the worker would only be given the passwords to
> the account (corporate) and to decrypt the corporate
> info once they have reached their destination.
>
>
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/protecting-yourself-suspicionless-searches-while-t
>
> best
> matti
>
> ps - thanks John, what an interesting article
>
>
>
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