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[ NNSquad ] NYTimes: "Can You Frisk a Hard Drive?"
NYTimes: "Can You Frisk a Hard Drive?" http://j.mp/geIRBa (New York Times) - - - My comments: Anyone who travels internationally with a laptop containing anything significant beyond the bare necessities for accessing cloud-based data under password and/or other security controls, is unfortunately simply asking for trouble. This holds especially true for the vast majority of travelers -- who have done nothing wrong -- but may still have their devices' (laptops, smartphones, etc.) data copied and searched in detail without a warrant or any indication that they are criminals, terrorists, or even overdue library book villains. A laptop similar to Google's CR-48 and a good SSH program (e.g. in a Java applet), can be an enormous help in this regard. In the long run, a more formal approach, as I outlined in: "Urgent Call for Privacy-Enhanced Mobile Data Storage and Self-Destruct Mechanisms - http://j.mp/gE1jUF (Lauren's Blog) would seem useful at least for consideration. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com