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- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -4/+912Time to download a Rick Astley video and rename it "osama-message.mpg"
- rpi22, on 04/29/2008, -3/+309make sure your webcam is setup for the reaction video
- URnotheonly1, on 04/29/2008, -0/+277I AM NOT THE ***** ENEMY!
- sockpuppets, on 04/29/2008, -1/+236Never gonna blow you up
- TexasCanuck, on 04/29/2008, -3/+231http://www.truecrypt.org/
I can't say enough good things about this software. I hesitate to use the term "bulletproof", but I have yet to have a problem with it, and have been using it for a couple years now. - xerodustrial, on 04/29/2008, -1/+212While this isn't really new to me and does not directly impact me in any way, it is a big deal.
It's also worth mentioning that this is not something that is limited to the United States, and is actually more common in other countries where you have even less rights when it comes to Customs searching through your stuff (and yes, this includes all of your data -- and yes, they are allowed to make backups).
My father is CIO for a huge international medical insurance company, and they have to use multiple layers of encryption on all of their blackberries, laptops, tablets, flash drives, or anything else that passes borders for this very reason -- medical information is extremely sensitive, and no security official should have the authority to comb through your reams of classified data when it isn't relevant to their counter-terrorism operations.
Similarly, my mother works for a large national aeronautics and aerospace contractor, and this is an even bigger deal for them because of national security reasons. I wonder if US officials realize issues that can potentially arise by a foreign agency legally scanning all of the information on a laptop that belongs to an aerospace contractor as they pass through an airport -- and I wonder if they realize that the TSA is contributing to, rather than alleviating this problem. In short, encryption is not even scratching the surface of the layers of security they have to place on their machines at their own expense.
This slippery slope of data search (and seizure as well -- they frequently make backups of your *****) is a very dangerous one, and I don't think it's something we take seriously enough.
I'm personally beginning to think the best way to securely store data for travel is remotely. Leave it on an extremely secure server at home, and access it when you get where you're going -- take nothing with you, so there's nothing to scan. - AJQuick, on 04/29/2008, -0/+206Bill of Rights: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
- blanktarget, on 04/29/2008, -0/+197If they are copying everything...what of copyrighted software/data? Aren't they breaking a number of laws doing that?
- Jan33, on 04/29/2008, -0/+181Guilty until Proven Innocent
- protogenxl, on 04/29/2008, -3/+175I think the real reason the feds are doing this is so they can harvest porn ala geek squad.
- Goodanswer, on 04/29/2008, -1/+149An interesting point..would they crack and make copies of all the data cd's that people have, and if they mistakenly copy a music cd is the RIAA going to go after them as well?
That would be an EPIC battle with blood shed, I bet. - muxaulo, on 04/29/2008, -3/+145and then submit it to Digg
- bringmeupmusic, on 04/29/2008, -1/+132Can you imagine how long customs searches would take!?
- protogenxl, on 04/29/2008, -2/+129Then Profit
- noahhoward, on 04/29/2008, -0/+119A number of laws and the constitution.
- meruru, on 04/29/2008, -1/+110Time to buy a 2nd "clean" laptop to travel with
- laserblazer, on 04/29/2008, -0/+99Easy - a dead RIck Astley in your duffle bag.
- TheGunslinger34, on 04/29/2008, -2/+100Just like the Patriot Act, this is a complete attack on your Liberty. We have no privacy or liberty in this country, just the illusion of both.
- Hetman, on 04/29/2008, -1/+96Damnit it is called the fourth amendment. Maybe if we recited the bill of rights everyday in elementary school instead of the pledge allegiance BS like this would not happen.
- h0ser, on 04/29/2008, -23/+116I will never travel to the US.
- kbaz, on 04/29/2008, -1/+91Benjamin Franklin said one of these - but they all say the same thing: so you take your pick:
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security."
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither."
"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
"If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both."
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
"Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither." - evilregis, on 04/29/2008, -9/+99I was thinking 2 girls 1 cup.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 04/29/2008, -4/+91USB thumb drive shoved up your ass FTW!
- KraftDinner101, on 04/29/2008, -3/+86You are the enemy because you don't agree with them.
- Zlorp, on 04/29/2008, -0/+83"your 500 gigs of pornography is a matter of national security
- GIACOMOSAN, on 04/29/2008, -2/+85This is outrageous. Seriously.
- ruforealz, on 04/29/2008, -1/+75Excellent call.
If only we could rick roll the airport x-ray thingy... - inactive, on 04/29/2008, -0/+73***** that. I have nudes of my girlfriend on my phone. *****.
- thechr0nic, on 04/29/2008, -0/+72ive been using it for a while now aswell, ive been impressed with it.
FTA:
"As Wired notes, the court did not rule on whether you have to help agents access your hard drive. If you use a password or encryption, the court was mum on whether you can be compelled to provide information on bypassing that security in order to access materials on the drive."
I will now take time to ensure that all my media is encrypted if I ever travel internationally. - sockpuppets, on 04/29/2008, -1/+71They can suck my balls if they think they're going to make me give them my password.
- gak001, on 04/29/2008, -1/+66The country is pretty cool, but the government is working really hard to make it a *****-hole anyway.
- robbiec87, on 04/29/2008, -1/+65Do they really have nothing better to do? It's not like people are trying to bring drugs or weapons across. Get a life, feds.
- inactive, on 04/29/2008, -0/+58"At the current rate, Mr. President, we estimate that we can harvest up to 30 terabytes of porn over the next 6 months."
- PabloMac, on 04/29/2008, -3/+61You owe me a Pepsi and a keyboard.
- TrevorBelmont, on 04/29/2008, -0/+58I'm going to stencil that onto my laptop.
- Shots, on 04/29/2008, -0/+58America - Land of the Free?
- ExSlashdotter, on 04/29/2008, -0/+57I work for a top 3 US defense contractor. As a network admin, I can attest that our policy is that any laptop that leaves the USA must have at least an encrypted user directory, and must require 2-factor authentication to boot into it (we use RSA keychains).
All I can say is "Good luck, Mr Dumbass Border Patrolman!" - JavertHolmes, on 04/29/2008, -4/+61Oh well, I won't be visiting the US again until this is changed. I have absolutely nothing to hide on my computer or cell phone, but there are two problems:
1) The principle. Just because you can search data quickly doesn't mean it should be searched.
2) Anyone with either spyware/malware on their computer or who visits sites other than their web-based email or a portal such as CNN/yahoo could easily have ***** up imagery, documents, etc. downloaded to their system. Take a look at the NAMES of your cookie files or adobe flash cached files kicking around sometime and you will be shocked at what's just hanging around on your system.
The sad part is that people like me who stay away from the US because of this will not be mentioned. If tourism numbers go down, it'll be because of "9/11 fears" "economic disparity" "seasonal downturn" or some other bad reason. - tehnico, on 04/29/2008, -0/+57Hopefully the department of homeland security and the RIAA would destroy each other in said battle.
- laserblazer, on 04/29/2008, -2/+58Your government dumps cash on these airlines when their incompetent management drives them into the ground - your money. Then you get humiliated during screening. These people are laughing at you.
- WNW3, on 04/29/2008, -0/+55It doesn't even make sense. If you want to transfer files across national borders using a physical drive has got to be the worst way to do it.
- ubuwalker31, on 04/29/2008, -0/+54Or stop carrying around trade secret documents, or stop carrying around letters from my attorney, or stop carrying around a letter to my psychiatrist...
- BXRWXR, on 04/29/2008, -0/+53Stay classy, bro. Stay classy.
- casek, on 04/29/2008, -0/+53it's long overdue that we wake up and realize that the government doesn't give a damn what we want.
they tap our phones, read our emails, search us like criminals at the airport....what ever happened to
going after the bad guys? why are we punished for what another nation(s) did to us? - abortionsforall, on 04/29/2008, -0/+51Flying internationally is already a huge pain in the ass, now they intend to make it even more so? Every time I fly I get pulled aside for the "extra" screening. As if that was not humiliating enough, now they are going to copy the contents of my laptop/phone/camera. I have nothing to hide, but goddamn this is getting way out of hand. America has turned from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent".
- aywwts4, on 04/29/2008, -0/+50Keep the rest on a completely transparent truecrypt partition
- Borgcube636, on 04/29/2008, -4/+54Ok. Seriously. I'm thinking about moving out of the country now. The gov. is beginning to go to far. Threshold = almost reached
- sockpuppets, on 04/29/2008, -0/+49Then I'll decrypt it and show them where my balls just were.
- djbon2112, on 04/29/2008, -5/+54I for one will now never be visiting our neighbour to the south. You don't seem to want people to visit your country and you treat everyone that does as a criminal and a "terrorist", so why should I go? I'll keep my hard-earned money here in Canada!
- theNazz, on 04/29/2008, -3/+52Coming in from Los Angeles... bringing in some encryption keys... don't touch my laptop if you please, Mr. Customs man...
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