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Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn
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Felix Rex  Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope 
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  Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Pornwtf!? And I actually want to visit this place...but christ.
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Minor Diety  Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Re: Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn Wtf!
yeah, I wouldn't have that. I'd sue, sue, sue. _________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse." - Coach |
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| Thu May 20, 2010 8:02 am |
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Felix Rex Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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Re: Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn btw, it's for these reasons that I carry an encrypted hard drive with me. There's nothing much on that hard drive... source code for clankiller, some database backups, my MP3 collection... that's about it. But customs officials can't access an AES-encrypted drive and (at least in the US) they're not allowed to demand the password. To make that even better, I don't even know the password... I have it stored online *somewhere* behind a password I do remember.
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Stranger  Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6420 Location: Estonia
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Re: Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn I got one of those hardware encrypted USB sticks for my father. After 10 tries it reformats itself. I forgot to test it though, should it format itself whether i can use data recovery programs to recover what was on it.
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| Thu May 20, 2010 10:22 am |
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Felix Rex Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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Re: Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn I have just a regular external hard drive, but I encrypted the entire partition using True Crypt.
http://www.truecrypt.org/ A minor problem is if you plug it into a Windows PC, it asks if you want to format the drive automatically, since it doesn't see a valid partition. There's no auto-wipe feature for true crypt, but the chance of someone cracking a decently strong passphrase is pretty low. Assuming they even realize it's encrypted in the first place. Though if a customs official formatted my personal hard drive, I would have some very irate words for them, their supervisor, and their lawyer once I took them to court over it. _________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
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Minor Diety Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Re: Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn All this bullshit makes me want to walk through customs and tell the officers there that I've got a PC full of snuff porn acting out multiple scenarios ion which the president will be killed.
Of course, if I did that in the US I'd probably 'disappear' to a sort of Gitmo, so maybe not._________________ "I find a Burger Tank in this place? I'm-a be a one-man cheeseburger apocalypse." - Coach |
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| Fri May 21, 2010 2:36 am |
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Felix Rex Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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Re: Australian Customs to Search Laptops for Porn heh... the Australians might hand you over to US authorities so their hands are clean.
 Though supposedly all they're looking for his kiddie porn and bestiality. So I'm sure snuff porn is ok. Acting out killing the president is, imo, a legal expression of free speech. There's a difference between acting it out and planning it out.  _________________ They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
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