On Fri, May 2, 2008 5:14 pm, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:29:22PM -0700, Doug LaRue wrote: >>** Reply to message from "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on >> Thu, 01 >>May 2008 19:01:58 -0700 >> >>> For those of you who travel (and those that don't). >> >>just set you system to boot to the command prompt. Can they force you to >>"make it go to Windows"? ;-) > > My laptop won't boot windows, it isn't even on the machine. > > I wonder what they would do with the suggestion of encrypt the data, and > have the traveller not now the password. It is kept elsewhere, and > someone > will communicate it to them after they arrive here. > > Or just send it over a VPN over the internet, and erase it from the > laptop. > > David >
If I were really trying to move stuff across the border, I'd use one of those mini USB sticks the size of 1/2 a stamp, maybe in a condom inserted in a private place. But is the Border Patrol aware that while in, say, Mexico, I can put an FTP site up on a home computer with a nonstandard port, come over, and then download the files to my heart's content? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
