[Discuss] Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers (Vancouver Sun)

[John Blomfield]

I would be interested to know what the reaction of boarder guards would 
be to a Linux laptop heavily password protected and the /home folder 
data encrypted?  Would the laptop just be confiscated if the passwords 
were not given?  It would take quite a bit of technical knowledge to 
uncover some very simple methods of hiding data e.g. an unmounted 
partition, an encrypted file buried in a systems folder.  For someone to 
spend the time to find such data, there would need to be some other 
reason for suspicion.

John

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> As seen at http://lwn.net/Articles/284182/, our government seems to be
> pursuing a completely secret negotiation process to implement a CAFTA 
> treaty
> (NAFTA for copyright) that would lead to a whole new level of arbitrary
> police and border guard actions concerning suspected copyright violations
> without any due process. See
> http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=ae997868-220b-4dae-bf4f-47f6fc96ce5e 
>
> for the ugly details.
>
> Alan
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