Re:Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travele...
by tatsuke95 on Sunday January 22, 2012 @03:27PM
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Hmm...either I wasn't clear enough, or you misunderstood. Maybe replace "idea" with "concept" or "requirement". What the doctor is doing/should do isn't ridiculous. It's the fact that the EFF had to write a 30 page document that instructs people on how to protect themselves from some neanderthal on a power trip who decides to comb through personal emails at the border. All in the name of fighting piracy. That's ridiculous.
Maybe to you, but not for me. I'm a doctor and a geek. I work on confidential patient data which I manipulate with custom software I write (some C, some perl... even some php at times :-).
But every devices this data goes into is encrypted.
To avoid any problem, when I travel I take my special "travel laptop" which has a brand new OS install from the night before. I take absolutely no data at all, unless I absolutely need to work on it during the trip - and in this case, this piece of data travels on an external media, in an encrypted form.
The macbook and the external media are disposable - should any agent want it, they can have it and keep it. I won't even complain.
What I care the most about is preserving the data confidentiality.
Why exactly wouldn't you want this kind of protection on your data from your doctor?