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Re:TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive by tommorris on Thursday December 31, 2009 @04:25PM (#1025017)
Be sure that you are aware of the laws on where you travel to. In the United Kingdom, the police can seek a warrant that requires you to either decrypt a specific piece of data or to surrender any encryption private key or password under Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Refusing to do so under this act is a criminal offence with a sentence of two years in prison (longer if they allege that the encrypted data is either related to terrorist activity or child pornography).

The crazy thing about the TSA: I flew back from SFO to London last month. I had three laptops in my carry-on bag. I also had a can of Red Bull. Apparently, the can of Red Bull is highly suspicious, but the three laptops are not. I had a perfect excuse though: one was running OS X, another was running Linux and the last was running XP.

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Re:TSA Threatens Blogger Who Posted New Screening Directive by jrockway on Friday January 01, 2010 @01:59PM (#1026060)
The TSA is not supposed to care if you are doing something illegal, they are only supposed to prevent you from bringing certain things into the secure area of the airport. Liquids (or cans that contained them) are what they are supposed to watch for. Laptops are fine.

Customs is another story; they would probably ask about your laptops.

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