Dual boot with one clean system and one actually in use that switch depending on the password given :) ?
Poor truecrypt.
New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
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#22> "A lot of the organised crime groups are becoming a lot more sophisticated in the ways they're trying to get things across the border.
Is this the new "think of the children"? The reasoning seems to be, criminals would rather carry their "digital crime-thingys" across the border saved on their phones, than upload it (encrypted) somewhere on the internet... Or is NZ planning to build a Firewall as well (better than China's)?
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#23Not that I ever had are reason to go there, but we can officially strike NZ of the list of places I'll be visiting. I hope this sort of malarkey doesn't become the norm. This seems rife for abuse. If you have good enough information to demand to rifle though someone's phone or computer, you have good enough information for a damn warrant.
> I hope this sort of malarkey doesn't become the norm.
Ha-ha-ha, sweet, sweet summer boy...
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#24There go my plans to visit New Zealand.
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#25> We're not going into 'the cloud'. We'll examine your phone while it's on flight mode This law isn't too bad as far as a compromise bill goes. The problem is a lack of accountability. Three fixes and I'd be okay with it: 1) Officials must document their reasons for finding a "reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing"; 2) Travellers should be able to challenge the search in a court proceeding to occur no later than close o…
Not saying I agree with your "not too bad" assessment. But your list is incomplete without considering the violations of third parties who have shared items in confidence that are now on the local device. So: 4) All third parties (meaning people other than the traveler) who have their privacy violated in the process must be informed immediately of the full details of the privacy violation. Which communications, pictu…
> All third parties (meaning people other than the traveler) who have their privacy violated in the process must be informed immediately of the full details of the privacy violation
This isn't a requirement when e.g. police search an office and so wouldn't seem appropriate in this case. NDAs, explicitly or implicitly (through statute), tend to exempt courts, regulators and law enforcement.
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#26waiting for kimdotcom to weigh in ...
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#27Anyone who cares will just use a burner phone when they travel.
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#28It's troubling to watch one of the most amazing places on earth transform itself into a totalitarian purgatory. Access to physical phone/laptop is only the first step -- mark my words. Big Brother's bureaucrats are never satiated. Next, we will have demands for passwords and unrestricted access to : email, facebook, photo sharing, hacker news posts, social media, etc. I see sudden spike in the market for burner phone…
Factory reset and wipe your device before travel, and restore when you get to your hotel. I’m a privacy nut and while this is a disturbing trend there exist straightforward work arounds. EDIT: I do this all the time and it’s not even remotely difficult or a big deal.
Restore from where?
Are you giving all your data to the evil likes of Apple, Google and Microsoft?
Re: New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine
#29> We're not going into 'the cloud'. We'll examine your phone while it's on flight mode This law isn't too bad as far as a compromise bill goes. The problem is a lack of accountability. Three fixes and I'd be okay with it: 1) Officials must document their reasons for finding a "reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing"; 2) Travellers should be able to challenge the search in a court proceeding to occur no later than close o…
Historically, I'm unaware of any country where you're entitled to require a court order before they can inspect your belongings when passing through a customs inspection at the border (and almost everywhere they don't need any suspicion of wrongdoing—they could, if they wanted, go through every paper everyone carried in, with the more or less sole limit of diplomatic bags).
> I'm unaware of any country where you're entitled to require a court order before they can inspect your belongings when passing through a customs inspection
I agree, but I think historical precedent with books and papers is different from our phones. Note that my process still defaults to allowing the agent a casual search. The traveller simply has the right to call foul and require the agent to produce their reasons in front of a judge.
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#30If this becomes the norm, then I can see a startup offering "convincing" email, browser history, social media profiles, photos and telephone call lists to present to customs. Give those pesky 5 eyes poison data of a fictional life via a 2nd phone.
The problem with this approach is that just like a cover used by a spy, you'd have to memorize all the details. One slip would blow this phony profile, then you'd be in jail for making false statements to a govt. agent...