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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by bluedino on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:28AM (#19564128)
Isn't the device lock easily defeatable on the computer?

Hold shift or some other key combination when you boot and it boots into the 'real' machine, the other OS is just a dummy with generic search history and data.

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by mikeash on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:39AM (#19564239)
I would advise against this. It might work but there’s no guarantee, and by lying to customs you’ve transformed your situation from one where you might have to buy a new computer to one where you might be convicted of a crime.
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