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

[Eugene Leitl]

David Honig writes:

 > 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).

The point is rather, can they legally demand the passphrase for my
hard drive with a cryptographic file system? What about naked hard
drives (I habitually lug computer hardware in disassembled state, when
I change my country of residence) which are filled with random-looking
bits? Hey, I could always claim I'm transporting a one-time pad ;)