Comments on: Border search and seizure of laptops are permissible

By: Ezight

Ezight — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:37:48 +0000

Just leave the hard drives and flashdrives at home—ON YOUR SERVER!!..

Take 1 CD with you…..
A puppy linux LIVE CD.

Yes there are many many LIVE LINUX DISTROS that require NO hard drive even be installed in the machine. (For real)

What can they unerase if you access your stuff through the internet or from your own server at your house.

Every time you shut down puppy–you in a sense–erase the memory by nothing more than sheer lack of voltage to the RAM.

Yep folks there are ways to do it—but you must be quite clever.

By: UNEASYsilence » Update: Border search and seizure of laptops are permissible

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:57:28 +0000

[...] Over two months ago, we reported that the US can legally search and seize laptops at border crossings, with reason or warrants. [...]

By: SAUL Peralta

SAUL Peralta — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:10:03 +0000

to LORENA
HEY lore, somethign similar happened to my friend from mexico, the lesbian bithch in the airport, like she didnt like the way my friend look like, she arrested her, for no reasonl, just like you, no calls, so all depends how the son of thousand fathers feel that day, and thats how decide yoru fate in that country in thata day, fucking bastards…

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:58:09 +0000

There are Linux distributions that will allow you to move your /home/user directory to a USB drive…

What do I think about these warrantless “investigations”? It’s criminal. Period.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:31:40 +0000

Time to turn on FileVault before I decide to travel, and have a dummy account that appears as my “real” account.

By: Thomas J. Brown

Thomas J. Brown — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:32:50 +0000

Wow. Just, wow.

By: akalaas

akalaas — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:26:01 +0000

i have tons of pedophilia and i have expirience… no just kidding. Anyway, you have 2 posibilities

1. you let the “good” people to search in your laptop, usb drive, firewire drive, external drive, sd drive, etc.. and waste some time, or

2. you can do an scandal, saying that they harass you, and the just want to annoy you or a get an “extracurricular tax”, and since they dont have an warrant(is that said it well?), they let you go, and maybe the supervisors fired they, and you do some social service, by making that fired they,

also another posibility is saying tha you dont have a password, and you come to a IT in this country to fix that

and remember, always have the number of you ambassor and dont carry porn in your laptop, upload it in box.net

By: drk3p

drk3p — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:28:56 +0000

Ok its simple, before you go acros sthe border, just pop out your laptops hard drive.
They said they can search laptops, but if nothings in them, then good luick to them.
Same with digital camers, just pop out your sd card and put it in your wallet r some place they can never find them, lol

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:04:42 +0000

Secure Empty Trash. Everyone’s best friend.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:26:59 +0000

Depends on how it’s wiped. If the data’s rewritten several times with random bits, there’s no chance of it being recovered. Sure, it takes a long time, but that’s probably the most secure way to go. Of course, when customs tries to boot it up and it won’t load, they’ll probably suspect it’s a dummy laptop with a bomb inside and either rip it apart or blow it up themselves.