Daily Archives: April 27, 2008

The encrypted traveler

As border enforcement as using increasingly invasive tactics, a traveler that has any privacy concerns for the data that they are carrying (especially if visiting the United States) will very likely take steps to protect themselves.
Examples:
FindLaw:

The Ninth Circuit, in a decision announced this summer, has approved forensic searches of laptop computers at the border, even [...]

Why I hate BlackBerries

I have been working hard to avoid Blackberries of all kinds having seen sales people (who if you ask anyone who works with technology, they will tell you that people in sales push for the worst solutions available almost all the time) fiddle with them for years.

They never quite worked right.
Their voice quality sucked.
They’re a [...]