>> JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >> http://www.acte.org/resources/press_release.php?id=91 Ah, our brilliant government in its infinite wisdom.... > Fred Baker wrote: > What I would suggest is that people encrypt confidential > information on their laptops, and perhaps the entire laptop. I would not recommend encrypting the entire laptop. As George Carlin would say (*), border service agents with a double-digit IQ and a triple-digit income might think that if dude encrypts the entire laptop, dude must really have top-secret stuff on it, while the only two confidential files dude has on his laptop are the payroll spreadsheet showing how much more dude makes compared to his office buddies and dude's mistresses phone numbers (one in each city, needs a database to keep track of). No need to trigger un-necessary scrutiny: Traveling Terrorist's 101: do not look, dress or act like one. Besides, there are several ways to carry confidential info while flying. Here's an example: They'll look at your laptop, but will not bother looking at the 4GB SD card you have in your digital camera, which happens to be a perfectly good plug-and-pray disk for any computer, PC or Mac. I have stored Excel and PowerPoint files both in and out of the directories used for pictures and it never bothered any camera I had in my hands. And even if they do look at it, there are ways to embed your confidential data within pictures. You need to use a lossless compression format such as TIFF. If done correctly, on a digital camera with a noisy CCD at high ISO settings, there is no way to find out that the least-significant bit of the picture contains actual data. A 5-megapixel 24-bit picture is 15MB, out of which 1.8MB are useable in theory and 300KB in practice. In short: configure the camera to TIFF, noise reduction to off, ISO 400 or higher. Heck, you don't even need a laptop. Just a digital camera. Michel. (*) Info: recorded _before_ 9-11-01 (*) Warning: absolutely politically incorrect and rude language. (*) If you have a problem with the "F" word, do NOT click the link below. (*) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwMz2bsbNY _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf