Do you keep everything on your laptop and are thinking about foreign travel?

[thewayne]

You might want to do a little cleanup first. I'd suggest backing up and removing stuff that you won't need and storing the backup DVDs in a fire-proof lock box or safe deposit box, then doing a wipe/overwrite of the unused parts of your drive.

There is a lot of uncertainty about what your rights are regarding search and seizure, so it'd be best if nothing major is there in the first place.

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[wuglet.livejournal.com]

Well in Europe you are within your right to make backups too.
They were actually looking if I had the original Windows XP CD and not a burned one. I had some burned ones with me too and when I said that those were my backup CDs, they just moved on.

I gues here it is a bit of a paranoia about illegal music and games, they are pretty harsh to people who illegally download those.

Oh well, I have no idea. ;)

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Ridiculous. They're only going to capture stupid pirates because the smart ones will have all of their warez on a server that Customs will never see.

I think I would consider rigging my machine to dual-boot Linux, and before going somewhere it might be inspected, flip it over to boot Linux only.