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HOWTO: Travelers Guide to Customs-Proofing Your Laptop
Customs officials stepping up electronic searches of laptops at the border where travelers have no privacy or legal grounds to object. Laptops and other electronic devices can be seized without reason, copied, and returned hours or even weeks later. Executives have been told that they must hand over their laptop to be analyzed by border police.
This is quite funny, I never experienced this kind of laptop scrutiny, that customs would have time to analyze what’s the data inside the laptop. Anyway, in case it will ever happen, it is really necessary to encrypt your hard drive.
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This is really stupid. Why they don’t search in our pants too ?
June 15th, 2008 at 10:41 amAre there some special softwares to help them find suspicious data on your laptop? God, I would hate to have my latop scanned like this!
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:03 pm