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        <title><![CDATA[No nonsense...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I entered the UK from a direct flight from Russia.Not only did I NOT have to have any luggage scanned, or walk through a metal detector or have any minimum wage jerk give me a pat-down -- I didn't even have to show a passport or answer any stupid questions from border control goons and CERTAINLY didn't have to submit any electronic equipment for confiscation.All it takes is walking up to the UNMANNED retina scanner booth and in less than 10 seconds you're through. That's the way to run a border. Bloody marvellous! (And by the way, exiting the UK is even EASIER -- there are NO border controls - just the usual screening for any kind of flight.)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marty R. Milette]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:20:57 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Focus]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Well, the average annual traffic fatality rate in the US has been around 37,000 for the last 10 years or so (http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx). But then, traffic fatalities occur every day, and we take them as if they are a normal part of every day life. The reason 9-11 got so much attention and response was not becuase of the number that were killed, but simply because it was an unusual event, which the administration then used to consolidate power. So please don't apologize. We need more people with soap boxes....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[buddm@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:09:30 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not going to the US (if I can possibly avoid it)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[That makes two of us Stan - except that I am going to do everything I can to avoid travelling to the US. I once visited what you think is part of the US (Guam) on my way to Marshall Islands. Had unpleasant officers (filled in the wrong transit form), serious search and a suitcase destroyed. And I was only in transit! Have added US to my travel blacklist, along with Somalia and Saudi Arabia. So have several hundred thousand students who find getting a visa difficult and hear stories of harassment at airports by those who do make it. What happened to your welcoming nature?All this talk about TSA &quot;borrowing&quot; my laptop, possibly stealing its contents and dusting it for explosive residues reinforces my decision. I hope that a new administration will soon make it possible for me to take your great country off my blacklist.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jonc2011]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:46:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ok]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[it is better not to have sensitive data.My point was that if you do it correctly, there is NO WAY for them to even see that you are hiding files easily.   And if they do there is no criminal act (presuming you are hiding corporate or personal data not criminal plans or prohibited porn)That will prevent the 'interest in hidden stuff', showing intent to hide...In this case, I'm suggesting you use this to encrypt any sensitive corporate data or data that has personal ID info (SSN's, CC#s, etc).This kind of data is not criminal.  If they DO find the hidden file then at least it is still encrypted.  They either have to ask your company for the key (probably much later, when they have gotten around to analyze your disk image, unlikely) or break the encryption themselves.   If you're not a terror suspect they likely won't bother.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr Dij]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:26:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Power converters]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Don't assume that you can find adapters or power converters overseas with ease. See if you can get a multi-adapter kit - when I was in central Europe, the adapter I had was &quot;kinda&quot; right in that it had two pins to insert into the outlet, but no spot for the ground pin that sticks out from the socket, which is recessed from the cup in which the plug is inserted. Unfortunately, my adapter was quite useless, and no electronics store or even travel store had anything along these lines. In the end, I got a charger for my cellphone and was grateful that I was a guest of a local who had a compatible voltage laptop power supply, and a hair dryer.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kahnt@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:53:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strange scenario with laptop screening!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hey Guys....strangest thing happened to me.  I was flying through JFK, I had cleaned my laptop monitor and keyboard with alittle windex earlier that day before packing into laptop bag.  They swabbed my laptop at security, and it came back positive with traces.  Security ranit through a second time, then I was cleared.  Just a note, be carful what you clean your laptops with!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[p.kondilis@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:57:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Check with Corporate IT Security too]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I work for a global company. All our personal laptops are encrypted at the drive level. As a result, we cannot take our personal laptops into some countries that restrict the use of encryption.The company's policy is that if you are traveling to such a country, you will be issued a &quot;safe&quot; laptop for just that trip, and must carry any data such as presentations in unencrypted form on a flash drive or USB hard drive.I like the tip someone gave of taping your business card to the top. (Like corporate logos, maybe you should tape it upside down, so that when it's in use it's an advertising billboard?)  I just have a simple sticker on mine, but it's saved me more than once from grabbing the next person's identical Dell.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bwatkins]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:53:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Marty]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not to worry, most people out here don't have the foggiest clue what it is like in the UK or Europe.  They see the crap that is plastered all over the tube and take it verbatim which is, as usual, warped and misunderstood. I have heard Americans say Canada is a socialist country for years now, I just laugh it off as it shows complete ignorance towards Canada, our laws, government and funded programs.Most people in Canada believe our medical system is the same as the UK's, not realizing that we still pay a monthly premium for our medical and we don't have near the coverage you do at home.People who don't understand a system will always consider their own superior to it. &quot;If it doesn't make sense to us, it can't be good.&quot;Big brother in the UK is sold out here as if the SS is watching you 24/7, tracking each and every good and bad citizen like the government's own Father Christmas.Its the only way they can sell the flawed and failing systems we incorporate in North America.  In the US, citizens have been trained from birth that anything the government does to secure the nation is in spite of their freedoms and used against good citizens to remove their rights (which they cling onto with sweaty palms and a white knuckled grip as if their last breath depended on it).In reality, as a citizen, I see FAR more freedom in Europe and Canada than in the USA, but they constantly trumpet and remind themselves they live in the land of the free.Hey, say it enough times and you'll actually start to believe it too.Don't mind them, they mean well, as long as it benefits them in the long run and makes them feel like they better than others.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Oz_Media]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:52:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Turns on &quot;reasonable&quot;]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Which speaks to his &quot;goal&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:52:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[But it didn't]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The next business trip my laptop passed inspection&quot;Your sandals were the issue, your laptop swab was not.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Oz_Media]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:43:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I don't see how]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Even before i really knew what they were doing, I just saw them pick up my notebook while I was being scanned and checked trhough myself.  The guy had a black wand with what appeared ot be a cotton swab on it and simply brushed it ever so lightly on the outer surface of my notebook.  SO WHAT?  Its a customs check, it is more of a hassle to remove all your change, keys etc. from your pockets and set it in a tray.I didn't know it was a bomb swab per se, I just figured some sort of typical security check for 'something' maybe Anthrax or something I didn't care it was not an issue.For people to get upset over noninvasive procedures, which take no time or effort on their behalf at all and obviously as a security measure of some sort, is a bit ridiculous.I say those people simply shouldn't travel.  I do agree that some of the border procedures are absolutely insane, they have no purpose and take heaps of time and human resources to interrogate people and really waste time and money with little benefit of identifying or capturing terrorists.  Swabbing your notebook as you pass through a security check, who cares?  It's not like they take it into a secret room and make you take a number while they dismantle then submerse it in a secret solution or something.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:41:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A small point about the illegality of this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I don't buy any argument that tries to minimalize serious issues or tries to divert attention or blame onto others. These DHS laws are an affront to every honest citizen and every traveler regardless of nationality.Everyone knows the UK has their own &quot;Nanny Nation&quot; tricks, but at least they don't confiscate the property of honest individuals just for crossing the border -- not yet at least.This thread is about what happens to travelers crossing US borders -- not China or anywhere else. In fact, I can't recall a single time in hundreds of trips over the past 10 years where I've had a bag searched -- or even passed through an X-Ray when entering Russia (or any of 20 other countries for that matter).Perhaps I'm old, but still remember when a little piece of paper called the US constitution was something Americans thought worth fighting for. These days, it seems that too many people are willing to stick their heads in the sand, let the government pi$$ one every law on the books and get away with it with complete immunity. Regarding this particular issue, the constitution does actually have something to say about it -- a small clause called the Fourth Amendment:&quot;The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.&quot;When crossing US borders, your property can be seized, with NO WARRANT and NO need for PROBABLE CAUSE whatsoever. They just take as much of your electronics as they want -- keep them for as long as they want -- copy (take and keep) whatever contents they want.And there is NOTHING you can do or say about it. That seems to me to be the very definition of &quot;unreasonable search and seizure&quot;.If you're good with that -- and want to live under a totalitarian regime -- great -- just don't insist that others give up THEIR rights and freedoms as well.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marty R. Milette]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:50:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Stating facts...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Go read the regulations yourself. Nobody is bitching -- don't let the FACTS upset you. I just flew from London to St. Petersburg Russia -- as I do every 2 or 3 weeks. NORMAL airport security in London -- 5 minutes -- there, you keep the laptop INSIDE the bag. No taking off shoes or other BS.Took the &quot;Green Channel&quot; into Russia -- NO SEARCH WHATSOEVER. This is how it is on 'this side of the pond'.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Marty R. Milette]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:54:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[That scan can cause delays]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I had recently taken a pleasure trip where I walked around an abandoned sulpher mine in a pair of sandals.  The next business trip my laptop passed inspection, but the sandals were in carry-on and set off the detect-o-meter.  That did cause some delay.  Make sure everything you have is squeaky clean.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bdkennedy@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:25:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It's not even just contact transfer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If the machine is in the same room or contained area as explosives manufacturing, residue will show up. If your business card doesn't show &quot;Bob's Fireworks Company&quot; then you may have explaining to do.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:44:11 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[your showing intent to hide something from border gaurds]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Your showing intent to smuggle data across the border just so TSA won't go snooping. It may work most of the time but do you really want to deal wit that time you finally get stuck with a curious TSA staffer? You still have to hand over the keys when they do catch you.More than the hassle, it's showing intent to smuggle. Your intending to sneak something past the TSA. The moment you have intent to hide something, your the unauthorized attacker. It's the difference between drifting over the speed limit accidentally versus being caught well over the limit screaming along in a freshly tuned ricer; intent is going to make the ticket worse. &quot;I'm sorry, I forgot that I'd double encrypted that data then named the encrypted files non-descript things like 'notillegaldata.txt'&quot; is probably not going to cut it.Your still better to travel with a clean laptop and just VPN or transfer your data by network after arrival. Your company data isn't passed around the TSA staff lounge and you don't loose access to the latest version of your presentation.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:41:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It upsets people]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree -- it won't hold you up. The real problem with the swab is that it upsets people. Knowing what it's for and that it's routine and to just go with the flow might help. Just knowing what to expect can make a big difference.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ssharkins@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:33:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I know you will ask and YES I still use floppies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I bought a camera sony that uses floppies and it still works.  missing all the chassis screws and the flash just stopped working but it still works I have to carry a flash light now though.I wanted to update a few things but the economy made that a bit hard to replace personal items.Buying a new battery is still cheaper for now.Ill drive where I am needed for now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cowen80194]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:26:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does that work]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did the update fix radiating your items with no care that it would actually wipe out data from floppies and dongles or hard drives.I had a flash drive wiped out by the XRAY and threatened with jail if I filed a claim on it.I posted my experience above so I wont re post it here but its stupid they can get away with the 100% XRAY safe statement.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cowen80194]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:22:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Right  to form a Malitia]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The constitution gives the right to form a militia and over throw the government and re establish it as it was back in the beginning.Who's with me?.........................Rase your hands, I mean your arms.  Umm I mean who wants to join me?Everyone has their hands and arms in the air as prisoners to the governments policy.I think the issue is who is comming off the planes and across borders from countries to lax on security, not who is leaving on a plane now a day.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[cowen80194]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:14:30 -0700</pubDate>
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