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Why carry data across the border on a laptop?[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#4)
by swwhite on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 10:06:19 AM PDT

If I had any data I did not want a customs inspector to see, I would put it on a CD and have it hand-delivered to my destination by a uniformed official of the federal government, for 41 cents an ounce. Or, I could email it to myself, upload it to personal web site space at my ISP, put it on a flash memory card in my camera, put in a USB stick in my toothbrush case, anything besides carry it in a laptop computer. So I wouldn't object to anyone searching my laptop since I would have nothing to hide, but searching laptops is going to catch only the dumbest criminals. (Not that they shouldn't be caught, of course.)

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private vs. company data[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Anonymous User on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 02:32:56 AM PDT

You maybe can try this with your private data, but if you are working for a global company and are a frequent traveller, your company would even forbid to store your data anywhere else than on the company's laptop Harddrive.

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