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2018-12-13 Government

Border agents are copying travelers' data, leaving it on USB drives

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Posted by DarthVader 2018-12-13 09:43|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Or travel with a "scrubbed" laptop & ship the data ahead of you or leave it encrypted online somewhere for you to access later. Then scrub the laptop before you return.
Of course with this lousy security, it would be trivial for border agents to put crap on your devices, to be discovered at a later time & make you guilty of a felony. THAT has probably been happening too.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-12-13 20:44|| 2018-12-13 20:44|| Front Page Top

#2 it would be trivial for border agents to put crap on your devices, to be discovered at a later time & make you guilty of a felony.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience. You can even diddle the timestamps on the files to make it look they've been there for a while.

Posted by SteveS 2018-12-13 22:02|| 2018-12-13 22:02|| Front Page Top

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