Your Laptop is Not Private or Secure at US Customs

Re:Your Laptop is Not Private or Secure at US Customs by GiraffeNecktie on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:58PM (#2434830)

It's become routine for law offices to provide their lawyers with clean installs when they take a laptop across the border. They can then just download the encrypted client files when they arrive at their destination. It's not such a great idea to be crossing the border with encrypted files on your computer like the article suggests. Even if the border guards can't decrypt them, it still makes you look like someone who is, rightly or wrongly, avoiding their scrutiny.

For those of us without an IT department, Dropbox works nicely. Just remember to scrub the folder before you travel.

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Re:Your Laptop is Not Private or Secure at US Customs by p858snake on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @07:06AM (#2436660)

Except the US says the border radius covers something like 100 miles inwards from all locations so basically everything is covered.

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Re:Your Laptop is Not Private or Secure at US Customs by SamReidHughes on Monday April 11, 2011 @09:33PM (#2435409)

More like, remember to scrub the entire hard drive before you travel.

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Re:Your Laptop is Not Private or Secure at US Customs by Keith_Lee on Monday April 11, 2011 @08:19PM (#2435121)

I agree that this is the best option, but one not always available to everyone.

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