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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:09:34AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > Kent Borg writes: > > > And what happens the day you are pulled aside at customs or airport > > security and are ordered to type in your passphrase? What do you do? > > Do you care if they see your data? (How much do you care?) > > Is there any legal reason (in the US) why you'd ever have to do this? There is the question of rights, and there is the practical circumstance. What *do* you do when they guy who can make you miss you plane at minimum (and far worse with a little effort) orders you to type in the passphrase? A lot of Bill of Rights niceties I used to take as mine have been rather abridged of late. As for when crossing the border, you have *very* few rights compared with once you are in the USA. > If so, what if you responded "I forgot my passphrase."? It might work if the prompt is obscure (the result of typing "mount -o encryption=aes-256 file /mnt/loop/") but might not if it is in their faces ("Welcome to Linux, please type passphrase for encrypted partition:"). Having the above mount command in your history file would be someplace between the too... -kb
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