U.S. Customs and Border Protection

[Andrew Cormack]

As one data point, I recently entered the US to go to a conference and
noone even asked whether I had a laptop (unlike arriving in Canada, when
they did). Mind you I may have confused the Americans by immigrating by
train!

There were quite a few delegates around the conference who had brought
'vanilla' laptops and were using one of the methods suggested by others
on this list. On the other hand I think those people/organisations were
always quite cautious about travelling with company data.

And presumably if a customs person at the border insists on having my
laptop as a condition of entry, I could always change my mind about
wanting to enter?

Andrew

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk=20
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of=20
> Jeremy Henty
> Sent: 04 August 2008 22:20
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:12:12PM +0100, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
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> > I would  guess they are certainly  capable of copying  the data, but
> > making a  mirror image of  a hard drive  is a lengthy  process [...]
> > you possibly won't be able to prevent them from having a good browse
> > and make  copies of  whatever they feel  is relevant,  especially if
> > they have nothing better to do with their time.
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> AIUI  they   now  reserve   the  right  to   take  away   your  laptop
> *indefinitely* and pass it onto *anyone*, so the fact that copying the
> data  is laborious  is irrelevant.   (Please correct  me if  I'm wrong
> about this.)
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> Regards,=20
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> Jeremy Henty=20
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