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

[Adam Parkin]

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:50 PM, John Blomfield <jabfield at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> They'd probably throw you in jail if you didn't let them log in.   We
> don't know what powers the law will give them.
> 
> You can put an encrypted volume in an encrypted volume.  So you give
> them key A, and they see some basic normal stuff.  Your personal data
> you hide with key B, they'll never know its there.
> 

Yeah Truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org) is great for that -- plausible 
deniability.  I use it extensively with pretty well any data I have 
(including stuff that isn't particularly "secret").  Best of all, it's 
FOSS! :)

Adam