Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by drharris on Thursday December 12, 2013 @08:30AM
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Clever, but try explaining that to these people. Most barely seem to have a high school diploma, much less understand encryption.
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by DrJ on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:21PM
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I have a box that I put a lock on, I left the keys to this lock with my friend and he will send it to me when I get to my destination.
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by jedahan on Friday December 13, 2013 @01:31AM
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why not just actually put your laptop in a lockbox like that?
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by brianpgordon on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:39PM
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And then hide your drugs inside the laptop.
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by drharris on Thursday December 12, 2013 @12:56PM
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Ok, well done. :)
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by bmelton on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:44AM
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Why would you need to explain anything at all?
"Has anyone given you anything to carry for them?"
No.
Re:Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport
by yaeger on Friday December 13, 2013 @04:04AM
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That is precisely what I meant when I said that I encrypt my laptop and have someone else choose the password.
Is that "unkown data" as the guy above you seems to believe? Hardly. If I pack my suitcase and then just have a friend come in with a padlock to which only he holds the key and he locks it, are the contents on my suitcase unknown to me? No, they aren't. They are my belongings and I just chose, for security reasons to not only stop carrying the key on me but to not even knowing what that key is.
Not necessarily. You could have encrypted the data to your friend's asymmetric keypair. Then you aren't technically carrying any data other than your own.