Reply #13: Actually he is right

[nadinbrzezinski]

if you use very good encryption it will become an exercise for a couple of hours and raise the bar of suspicion. Let's just say... they will suspect you DO have something really nefarious to hide. Me... ok a history book I am working on, a few novels, a few shorts and a bunch of PDF's... no, I do not travel with any financial data. Hell, we don't keep any of that in any hardrive... there is a reason for that...

You know why I use my name online and not a handle? If anybody is motivated enough they will find my computer access to the network in five seconds flat, and my real ID in fifteen, twenty five if the network is really slow and they have to take different routers.

What is true is that most Americans believe that the people working in cryptography are dolts... after all they work for the government... and those who work for the government are dolts. Which of course is far from reality. We have SOME dolts in government, usually Appointees, but the GS folk are very good at what they do.

Oh and we do know a white hat that works for IBM... but he is a WHITE HAT... what do you think he does all day? Just like the people at NSA that is what they do all day... why I know it is an exercise in futility, and I just take a cheap netbook... that yes I can afford to lose. All data been backed up... anyway.

What concerns me is not whether a government agent can get into my HD... that is a legal matter... in the gray zone that is a border crossing... having done many of them in an ambulance I am aware just how gray that is. But that we are increasingly becoming the dystopias I dreams up decades ago... or others dream up decades ago... that is the matter here.