All your data are belong to us
The 9th circuit court has ruled that customs agents can search the data on your laptop without cause.
Some practical advice here. Most tech-savvy people who value privacy or have business secrets use file and disk encryption. But as the author of this guide writes, this could be a red flag for meddlesome customs agents, and suggests steganography to plausibly deny truly sensitive data (like with TrueCrypt).
As I wrote about before, a lower federal judge has ruled that one cannot be compelled to divulge a passphrase. However, the UK can, and the federal gov't has other ways of getting what it wants.
However, using a steganographic lockbox is annoying, so even if one is Muslim/brown and traveling to the UK what is the actual risk? In the US, if you are asked to divulge a passphrase and refuse, what's the worst that could happen to you realistically?
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