Re: UK searching traveler's disk drives for pornography (fwd)

[David Honig]

At 12:29 AM 7/21/00 -0700, Jurgen Botz wrote:
>The interesting question (for this list) is, if some border officials
>search your hard drive and they encounter encrypted files, what will
>they do?  My guess would be that they will demand the key and threaten
>to deny you entry if you don't give it to them.  It does not appear
>that there are any international laws or standards that say they can't
>do that.

But could they do that to an American returning to America?  Sure,
a brit returning to post-RIP britain is fresh meat.  Or a furriner
coming to America (who isn't yet on US soil).