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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by busterarm on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:43AM (#19564293)
Better, have a secure server at home and ansible playbooks to set up laptops (including getting any minor secrets that you need onto that laptop. Restrict more important stuff to just ssh).

If your threat model doesn't include physical tampering/rootkits, just wipe your devices pre-travel and set it up when you get where you're going. If it does and you can afford to mitigate that risk, arrange to have cheap new devices at your destination and travel with nothing.

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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by darksaints on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:58AM (#19564431)
If you're going that route, why not just create a disk image and scp it from your server? Certainly a lot easier than trying to rebuild everything from scratch.
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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by DDub on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:04PM (#19565039)
actually I'd find running my ansible playbook much, much easier than transferring GB of disk image about. I maintain the playbook so that I can keep work laptop and personal laptop in sync. Although I am looking at Nixos as a possible replacement.
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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by busterarm on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @12:39PM (#19564824)
An ansible playbook gives you much more flexibility to get to the same place. The one I run takes a mere 3-5 minutes to run (typically) regardless of where I am in the world.
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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by eptcyka on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:18PM (#19565174)
Would work if you trusted that the devices weren't tampered during inspection. Why would I put my keys on something which might've been wiretapped? If you really need to compute whilst traveling or through the states, just buy something cheap whilst you're there.
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Re:Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at US airpo... by busterarm on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @01:31PM (#19565296)
I literally suggested that if you read my comment.
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