news.com.com— Employers have a new worry--that business travelers' laptops, containing private corporate information, will be seized at customs and immigration checkpoints.
Oct 24, 2006View in Crawl 4
Just another example of our retarded ideas about security. Make business people think twice about coming to America to do business. Brilliant. The bad guys are smart enough to know they can drop a thumb drive with an encrypted partition in an overnight package and have it delivered right to their door for less than $20.00. We're turning into a nation of retards. Stop the insanity.
This is a problem easily surmounted by technology:1) Truecrypt2) Hidden encrypted volumesRead through the "plausible deniability" sections of the Truecrypt manual, and it's fairly simple to ensure that critical data is protected from prying eyes, even if you're tortured for the password.
"An hour and a half of your life suspended while a guy in a short haircut on a power trip goes through pictures of your dog and your mom's birthday."Didn't know Kim Jong Il was working at Canada Customs. He must've got laid off again, no wonder he wants nukes...
"Judge Pregerson (normally 9th Circuit, but sitting on C.D. Cal)..."No, sorry -- Judge Dean Pregerson is a district court judge in the Central District -- he's the one who wrote this opinion. (He seems to get a lot of technology-related cases.)His father, Harry Pregerson, sits on the 9th Circuit.
Closed AccountOct 25, 2006
Just another example of our retarded ideas about security. Make business people think twice about coming to America to do business. Brilliant. The bad guys are smart enough to know they can drop a thumb drive with an encrypted partition in an overnight package and have it delivered right to their door for less than $20.00. We're turning into a nation of retards. Stop the insanity.
jdbertronOct 25, 2006
TrueCrypt. Duh.
geonitOct 25, 2006
This is a problem easily surmounted by technology:1) Truecrypt2) Hidden encrypted volumesRead through the "plausible deniability" sections of the Truecrypt manual, and it's fairly simple to ensure that critical data is protected from prying eyes, even if you're tortured for the password.
tmspecialOct 25, 2006
One word: REDICULOUS!
ieathamburgersOct 25, 2006
"An hour and a half of your life suspended while a guy in a short haircut on a power trip goes through pictures of your dog and your mom's birthday."Didn't know Kim Jong Il was working at Canada Customs. He must've got laid off again, no wonder he wants nukes...
flameboyOct 25, 2006
2 passwords. 1 decoyplausible deniability
whitearrowOct 25, 2006
"Judge Pregerson (normally 9th Circuit, but sitting on C.D. Cal)..."No, sorry -- Judge Dean Pregerson is a district court judge in the Central District -- he's the one who wrote this opinion. (He seems to get a lot of technology-related cases.)His father, Harry Pregerson, sits on the 9th Circuit.