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Re:ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones f... by CWuestefeld on Sunday January 22, 2012 @12:33PM (#3497081)
No. "Only for that purpose" means that you never use it. This is trivially detected: the OS event logs will report that it hasn't been booted in 6 months, and no files have changed in that time. It's obvious that you haven't been using that system in the time you were out of the country; why did you have it with you?

For this to work, you need to actually use the dummy partition for non-sensitive matters -- and be absolutely religious about separating the sensitive tasks from non-sensitive, which is much more difficult than it first sounds.

Re:ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones f... by muyuu on Sunday January 22, 2012 @08:46PM (#3498628)
I actually carry a lighter computer when travelling than the one I use most often. So yes, it may have gone months unused and it may have just a few tools on it, and little to no content.

There is nothing unusual about that.

Re:ACTA will force border searches of laptops, smartphones f... by tripa on Sunday January 22, 2012 @02:00PM (#3497323)
I'd feel ok telling the US borders I've got a special laptop just for them.