plumsauce - 4:21 am on Mar 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

Seems like "The Matrix" has come to pass.

Note that encryption will not help you at all. If that linked article does not mention it, there are other articles which mention that not only do they want to examine the computer, they want the passwords.

What justification they have for that, I do not know. Last I checked bits and bytes are not explosive. Unless they are of the watergate leak variety. If they can't copy paper documents without a warrant, I fail to see how hard drive *contents* are any different..

Since people will start travelling with only the passwords to remote systems in their memory, it is just as much a brain implant as in the movie. It is just a question of the scale of memory capacity.

At this point you need to create a bootable cd in the os of choice that has nothing on it other than a vpn client on it. One that does not use any private keys of value.

Maybe you'll want to Fedex the the cd to your hotel. Or, keep a copy at every destination. A verifiable copy. Or, store the iso image online.