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Re: UK searching traveler's disk drives for pornography (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene Leitl)
Fri Jul 21 19:31:55 2000

From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:14:57 -0700 (PDT)
To: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org>, "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>,
        cryptography@c2.net, vcerf@mci.net
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David Honig writes:

 > 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).

The point is rather, can they legally demand the passphrase for my
hard drive with a cryptographic file system? What about naked hard
drives (I habitually lug computer hardware in disassembled state, when
I change my country of residence) which are filled with random-looking
bits? Hey, I could always claim I'm transporting a one-time pad ;)


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