And I'm still waiting for someone to explain how that works with employer gear.
I'm guessing my corporate compliance team will not be pleased if I tell them someone made copies of all the companies data...even if it is uncle sam.
Like what does one do in that situation? Can't really agree. At the same time US border staff is not known for their understanding nature when it comes to saying no.
If they are concerned they will do what many companies do when going to places like China. You get issued a new laptop for the trip who's only job is to act as a remote terminal to a system that doesn't travel with you.
>There's not much more you can do in that situation.
Indeed - and yet that is an entirely unworkable situation. e.g. The stuff on my laptop is covered by three countries' regulators/boards of directors/jurisdictions, none of whom will be understanding if I tell them the border stasi copied all the data ably assisted by yours truly with decryption keys
Very much doubt I'd still be employed even if innocent & had no choice
>Revoke keys
With financial data once its been duplicated it's gone / out in the wild.
Yes, they do, but not all people carry laptops where pretty much everyone will have a smartphone. There have been references to Cellebrite devices which target smartphones. So when all you have is a hammer, you focus on the nails.
There are stories online of people having a "travel" laptop where they fill their USB/Thunderbolt ports with epoxy or similar to prevent device connections by anyone not just at border crossings.
If the border guards see that your laptop has epoxy in the ports, and that by definition you are using this technique for privacy-averse countries, sounds like you won't be making the flight any time soon.
What border guards have you seen that would inspect a laptop that closely in the first place? I fly relatively frequently and all they care about is that it's kept in a separate bin to the rest of your luggage, no one looks at it upclose(also you can damage ports in a way that isn't visible on the outside).
99% of my flights have been exactly like this with no device inspection, and I've been in multiple autocratic countries. What I meant is that if they are at the stage where they are looking to plug into your laptop, having the ports blocked like this will immediately cause problems for you in countries where blocking your ports would be useful. It's a catch-22
Ah, I see - sorry I misunderstood. I thought the comment meant that you'd be stopped from boarding the plane in the first place if your laptop has glued up ports.
Nothing exciting or worth sharing to be honest. Anxious hours spent in the airport followed by entry denial. There were no real consequences other than stress in the moment and the inconvenience of having to re-book a ton of things.
Pulling out the hard drive might be effective if it's 2002 or something. If you have a modern laptop like a MBP, then the drive isn't really removable. If you were to remove it, the use of encryption linked to the T2 chip makes the thing useless.
