[PLUG] script to make my laptop 'safe' for int'l travel?

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 22:14:33 UTC 2008


On Feb 17, 2008 2:10 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    While these are sound technical solutions, they virtually guarantee the
> confiscation of the laptop. The Homeland Security/Customs agents assume that
> you are hiding something of Major Importance; else, why would you encrypt
> anything? No, the above won't work as intended.
>
>    The goal is to pass inspection without raising any eyebrows and bringing
> the computer back home again.
>
>    Not knowing what they might be looking for -- other than web sites you
> accessed while out of the country, for whatever reason they think that's
> important -- dumping ~/.mozilla is probably all that's needed. Unless, of
> course, having no records at all is reason to be suspicious.

Keep two hard drives then.  One with Windows installed that acts as a
decoy (standard install, some apps, light usage of "ok" websites).
Keep your other disk somewhere else...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
--
"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878



More information about the PLUG mailing list