Judge still working on border searches of laptops

[thewayne]

Basically the Feds have occasionally been seizing laptops and copying their drives at border crossings. No warrant required, there is a special exemption to the 4th Amendment for border crossings. I don't have anything in particular to hide, but that's not the point -- I don't want these people poking around in my files.

I'll have to figure out what I'll do when I next cross borders. I'll probably PGP my data directories. I know Mac has some encrypted vault system, but I would definitely double it with something like PGP. Probably would be a good idea to buy some DVDs before my return and burn new stuff on to them and mail 'em home and to work.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/06/laptopsearches

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[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I think your icon speaks for itself.