Well I have been serious considering not going to the January party up in Vancouver BC because of this article.

The area to the south of Vancouver BC along the US border is continuously in the news for some mishap or screwed up thing that got through.  But to have this happen where they can "examine, hold or erase" someone's data on electronic devices of their choosing.

Honestly, Canada is a wonderful country and have lived along its US border for many moons.  But since 2001, its been a bunch of crap that one administration feels it needs to monitor its citizens and foreigners....

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Please take a look at the link and tell me how you feel.  I really want to go but if this is how I'm going to be treated as a US citizen coming back into the US?

Start of another rant and information Blog: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10004646-38.html?tag=nefd.top

Border Patrol Policy: http://www.cdt.org/security/20080716_CBP%20Search%20Policy.pdf

ICE Policy: http://www.cdt.org/security/20080716_ICE%20Search%20Policy.pdf

Possible options to creating a harder border hardware (computer only..)
 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9892897-38.html

The idea I liked the best, is to encrypt the data as much as you can, uploaded it to a secure web site or location and ditch the thing on some fool for free.  Hey even craigslist it for some cheap cash...

@Enki: Wonderful idea.  Buy a cheap laptop with a 4 gig card that if you would get stopped at the border, there would not be much left on them. (aka erase incriminating evidence way before you get on the plane, cross the border or do other things.


Your businessware and race might have been a way you got around the TSA.

Enki and Cimm, Am I just wayyyy to paranoid crossing the border and back North of Seattle?

I'm not planning on taking any electronics which could store data, other than my digital camera.
I may bring my phone, idk. would probably get one of those cheap trac phones or something for 20$.

I'm also debating on bringing my 2m Handheld. Could be interesting.

The grub installer and how to set it up with the UUID's has always mystified and scare me. I' ve many partitions and other things because of it.

Have to study it more to find out more information. The Wipe, vpn and imaging idea really has me thinking. :-)

My favorite links partitioner is Partimage. Its very CLI friendly, though its for the faintest of heart.

Better yet, why not rent some ftp or web space on a server that you can put a fresh image or ? on. (Make it small, just the essentials like it was stated above..)

Using Linux with wget-DD to write the image to the HD?

Just makes sure there is nothing questionable or illegal. Yeah, some hosts might get a little mad. Or like some had said on this thread, put up your own home box with hopto or some other networking connection.

My only problem with those connections,  is cable and dsl tend to have very slow 1 Meg or less connections uploading.  Do you want to be downloading a huge image or archive from one of these connections.