[7525] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: UK searching traveler's disk drives for pornography (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Fri Jul 21 18:13:38 2000
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:13:15 -0700
To: Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org>, "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, vcerf@mci.net
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At 12:29 AM 7/21/00 -0700, Jurgen Botz wrote:
>The interesting question (for this list) is, if some border officials
>search your hard drive and they encounter encrypted files, what will
>they do? My guess would be that they will demand the key and threaten
>to deny you entry if you don't give it to them. It does not appear
>that there are any international laws or standards that say they can't
>do that.
But could they do that to an American returning to America? Sure,
a brit returning to post-RIP britain is fresh meat. Or a furriner
coming to America (who isn't yet on US soil).
