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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by arnonejoe on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:24AM (#19836865)
Maybe set up a VM on AWS and bring a new laptop over the border. Or leave your laptop at home and VM into it. Or ship your laptop to where ever you're staying and bring a burner phone over the border. Doesn't seem like a difficult problem to solve.
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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by rando444 on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:49AM (#19838242)
So because you personally can hide your private data, that makes this an acceptable form of security for 'everyone else'?

Pardon me while I humbly disagree.

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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by digianarchist on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:29AM (#19836888)
Everything you just said is a massive inconvenience.
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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by system2 on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:32AM (#19837495)
Why? I am literally working like that all day long and it is super easy to achieve. Maybe takes 15 minutes to setup everything.
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Re:Canada Border Services seizes lawyer's phone, laptop for ... by ahaferburg on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:51AM (#19837548)
As opposed to having your laptop seized for multiple weeks?
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