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i been reading that border guards can demand access to laptop and look youre computer , email , facebook messages ect
anyone else finds this a bit intrusive?
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May 18, 2013, 07:43:47 PM |
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i been reading that border guards can demand access to laptop and look youre computer , email , facebook messages ect
anyone else finds this a bit intrusive?
For facebook, I believe that violates TOS Section 4 ( 8 ).
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May 18, 2013, 07:46:46 PM |
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if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be crossing borders.. you could get lost
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May 18, 2013, 07:47:58 PM |
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if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be crossing borders.. you could get lost dont maek fun fellow canadian im not that smart i get by on my good looks
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May 18, 2013, 08:13:42 PM |
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i been reading that border guards can demand access to laptop and look youre computer , email , facebook messages ect
Assuming you`re talking about the US specifically, that was the situation for the past few years. Not so much anymore. For a while there, DHS and successive administrations were of the view that it could do anything it wanted with regard to confiscation of anybody`s laptop at the border for off-site inspection, and they were claiming that the mere fact of password-protection was evidence of wrongdoing which would justify them in seizing the computer. Now, they have to have "reasonable suspicion" (which is a lower hurdle than probable cause, but still more than "I felt like searching") in order to seize your device(s). Article about the case in WashingtonTimes. anyone else finds this a bit intrusive?
It`s super intrusive. I can understand the reasoning behind it, but I don`t agree with it and I don`t think it`s especially effective. It`s unfortunate that this particular ruling came after an investigation where they actually DID find pictures of the guy abusing children. My guess is that most people just don`t challenge it far enough when they don`t have anything to lose. I mean, if you have your laptop taken away, examined, and then maybe taken offsite and returned to you a few months later - what are you going to do about it? Be pissed off for a while but little else? Or challenge it to the highest court in the land? Most people go for the former, because it`s mainly the principle and most people don`t have the cash to fight a legal battle over such a principle. If for some reason they do have reasonable suspicion, they can still take your laptop, and a court order can still compel you to reveal your password. Whether you can do that, and whether you have adequate encryption to provide some kind of plausible deniability in such a situation, is a whole different story. Anyway, based on this ruling the ability to do this has been diminished though not eliminated. And in the UK, you can be sent to jail *just* for refusing to reveal your password, depending on what offences you are being charged with. See also here. I`m being lazy and not providing links to the cases themselves, but these articles give you the general gist. Bottom line is that there`s a bit of a storm brewing regarding cryptography, and the state actors are very interested in limiting its usefulness.
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May 18, 2013, 09:01:30 PM |
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Reasonable Suspicion
"He was acting suspiciously." "He smelled like weed." "He was white but his children were Hispanic." "He kinda looked like a guy." "His car kinda looked like another car." "He don't speak American English good." "He wore a fancy desert-dress and a head-towel." "He could've had guns." "He could've had child-porn." "He could've had WMD's in his trunk. And laptop."
If none of that works,
"We suspected he was a terrorist."
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May 19, 2013, 08:50:57 AM |
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i been reading that border guards can demand access to laptop and look youre computer , email , facebook messages ect
Assuming you`re talking about the US specifically, that was the situation for the past few years. Not so much anymore. For a while there, DHS and successive administrations were of the view that it could do anything it wanted with regard to confiscation of anybody`s laptop at the border for off-site inspection, and they were claiming that the mere fact of password-protection was evidence of wrongdoing which would justify them in seizing the computer. Now, they have to have "reasonable suspicion" (which is a lower hurdle than probable cause, but still more than "I felt like searching") in order to seize your device(s). Article about the case in WashingtonTimes. anyone else finds this a bit intrusive?
It`s super intrusive. I can understand the reasoning behind it, but I don`t agree with it and I don`t think it`s especially effective. It`s unfortunate that this particular ruling came after an investigation where they actually DID find pictures of the guy abusing children. My guess is that most people just don`t challenge it far enough when they don`t have anything to lose. I mean, if you have your laptop taken away, examined, and then maybe taken offsite and returned to you a few months later - what are you going to do about it? Be pissed off for a while but little else? Or challenge it to the highest court in the land? Most people go for the former, because it`s mainly the principle and most people don`t have the cash to fight a legal battle over such a principle. If for some reason they do have reasonable suspicion, they can still take your laptop, and a court order can still compel you to reveal your password. Whether you can do that, and whether you have adequate encryption to provide some kind of plausible deniability in such a situation, is a whole different story. Anyway, based on this ruling the ability to do this has been diminished though not eliminated. And in the UK, you can be sent to jail *just* for refusing to reveal your password, depending on what offences you are being charged with. See also here. I`m being lazy and not providing links to the cases themselves, but these articles give you the general gist. Bottom line is that there`s a bit of a storm brewing regarding cryptography, and the state actors are very interested in limiting its usefulness. when did all this happen ? ive been watch these border security shows and the border guards made this one girl show them her bank account to show that she had sufficient funds to vacation in the country like wtf she actually had to log into her online banking from their computer to show them , how are they able to get away with this and when the fuck did this happen that is probably the most intrusive thing i seen so far way worse than letting someone look through your laptop
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May 19, 2013, 02:48:10 PM |
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Reasonable Suspicion
"He was acting suspiciously." "He smelled like weed." "He was white but his children were Hispanic." "He kinda looked like a guy." "His car kinda looked like another car." "He don't speak American English good." "He wore a fancy desert-dress and a head-towel." "He could've had guns." "He could've had child-porn." "He could've had WMD's in his trunk. And laptop."
If none of that works,
"We suspected he was a terrorist."
Sure, officer....here is the password to my account. It's "HotCindy". What? You want the passwords to the other fourteen accounts? Oh, I have NO IDEA. Those must be my kids and my girlfriend's accounts. What, you've got into HotCindy? What's the problem? You don't like what we do? Well, it's just the training manual materials for our door to door missionaries. You don't have any problem with Jehovah's Witnesses, do you?
What's that? You want the administrator password? Gee, I don't know...none of these accounts are named administrator. Aren't you an administrator? There's one account here, look. It's called BigBOB.......... They want to act sick and twisted, give'em sick and twisted.
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May 19, 2013, 07:23:12 PM |
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Sure, officer....here is the password to my account. It's "HotCindy". What? You want the passwords to the other fourteen accounts? Oh, I have NO IDEA. Those must be my kids and my girlfriend's accounts. What, you've got into HotCindy? What's the problem? You don't like what we do? Well, it's just the training manual materials for our door to door missionaries. You don't have any problem with Jehovah's Witnesses, do you? What's that? You want the administrator password? Gee, I don't know...none of these accounts are named administrator. Aren't you an administrator? There's one account here, look. It's called BigBOB....[/i] ...... They want to act sick and twisted, give'em sick and twisted. You can still be jailed for not giving the passwords for the other accounts. Claiming "I don't know them" is not a valid defense.
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May 19, 2013, 07:24:34 PM |
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You can still be jailed for not giving the passwords for the other accounts. Claiming "I don't know them" is not a valid defense.
Fuck 'em. It's true. I can't give what I don't know.
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May 19, 2013, 07:28:04 PM |
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You can still be jailed for not giving the passwords for the other accounts. Claiming "I don't know them" is not a valid defense.
Fuck 'em. It's true. I can't give what I don't know. Which is exactly what most of the controversy is about, since even if you genuinely do not know the password, they will jail you anyway. The flip side is that anyone could get away with not giving up a password just by claiming to not know it.
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myrkul
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May 19, 2013, 07:44:26 PM |
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You can still be jailed for not giving the passwords for the other accounts. Claiming "I don't know them" is not a valid defense.
Fuck 'em. It's true. I can't give what I don't know. Which is exactly what most of the controversy is about, since even if you genuinely do not know the password, they will jail you anyway. The flip side is that anyone could get away with not giving up a password just by claiming to not know it.
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Sure, officer....here is the password to my account. It's "HotCindy". What? You want the passwords to the other fourteen accounts? Oh, I have NO IDEA. Those must be my kids and my girlfriend's accounts. What, you've got into HotCindy? What's the problem? You don't like what we do? Well, it's just the training manual materials for our door to door missionaries. You don't have any problem with Jehovah's Witnesses, do you? What's that? You want the administrator password? Gee, I don't know...none of these accounts are named administrator. Aren't you an administrator? There's one account here, look. It's called BigBOB....[/i] ...... They want to act sick and twisted, give'em sick and twisted. You can still be jailed for not giving the passwords for the other accounts. Claiming "I don't know them" is not a valid defense. I have no idea where you get these assertions from. Can some cop find some excuse to jail someone regardless of the facts? Yeah, probably, anytime, anywhere. Is "I don't know" a valid defense? Hell yes it is. What I think you are referring to is whether an individual could be strong armed and pressured into giving up some things, under threat of some legal charges being brought. That's different from "being jailed". There is a process where someone might be detained and questioned, then possibly charged with something, then booked, possibly being in jail overnight if they timed it right, then getting out on bond when the courts open the next day and after bond has been set and an attorney hired. So please don't argue the fear factor. Yet in so doing you miss my point. I argued FOR giving them passwords, but making the obvious content so disgusting, boring and ridiculous that it matched their disgusting, boring and ridiculous behavior. And there's no person, anywhere that's going to credibly assert that one individual has all the logins to a family computer.
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May 19, 2013, 11:45:56 PM |
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I have no idea where you get these assertions from.
Can some cop find some excuse to jail someone regardless of the facts?
Yeah, probably, anytime, anywhere.
Is "I don't know" a valid defense? Hell yes it is.
What I think you are referring to is whether an individual could be strong armed and pressured into giving up some things, under threat of some legal charges being brought. That's different from "being jailed". There is a process where someone might be detained and questioned, then possibly charged with something, then booked, possibly being in jail overnight if they timed it right, then getting out on bond when the courts open the next day and after bond has been set and an attorney hired.
So please don't argue the fear factor. Yet in so doing you miss my point.
I argued FOR giving them passwords, but making the obvious content so disgusting, boring and ridiculous that it matched their disgusting, boring and ridiculous behavior.
And there's no person, anywhere that's going to credibly assert that one individual has all the logins to a family computer.
There is no fear factor involved. Claiming you don't know a password as a defense will result in you being placed in jail for contempt of court. Claiming to not know a password is not a valid legal defense.
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May 20, 2013, 03:37:23 AM |
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.....Claiming you don't know a password as a defense will result in you being placed in jail for contempt of court. Claiming to not know a password is not a valid legal defense.
Frankly I don't think you know what you are talking about. If you really and sincerely think that, then if you want to convince others, you should be able to cite case law and higher court decisions to the effect claimed. Because what you are saying sounds just silly, and goes against basic principles of law. I'm not at this time going to look up the relevant cases. You are the one that has made the fantastic claim, it is your job to support it.
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May 20, 2013, 03:42:26 AM |
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You want the administrator password? Gee, I don't know...none of these accounts are named administrator. Aren't you an administrator?
Anyhoo, police in my sate can download all your text messages if they have the whim after pulling you over. You might be hiding drug deals, even if there's no extraordinary reason to suspect it!
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May 20, 2013, 04:11:47 AM |
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Anyhoo, police in my sate can download all your text messages if they have the whim after pulling you over. You might be hiding drug deals, even if there's no extraordinary reason to suspect it!
Of course there's reason to suspect it. You're not in a uniform, are you?
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May 20, 2013, 04:16:56 AM |
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Threads like this serve as a great reminder - If you've been lazy up until now with your encryption habits, etc. don't leave it too late to set things up properly.
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A friend was telling me there is a program that depending on which password you give it at bootup it will load different encrypted partitions....
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May 20, 2013, 04:40:36 AM |
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Anyhoo, police in my sate can download all your text messages if they have the whim after pulling you over. You might be hiding drug deals, even if there's no extraordinary reason to suspect it!
Of course there's reason to suspect it. You're not in a uniform, are you? I recommend: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/i-do-not-consent-search-device-sticker-3-pack
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May 20, 2013, 04:41:22 AM |
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A friend was telling me there is a program that depending on which password you give it at bootup it will load different encrypted partitions....
TrueCrypt can do that.
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May 20, 2013, 04:57:32 AM |
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You can still be jailed for not giving the passwords for the other accounts. Claiming "I don't know them" is not a valid defense.
IANAL but I'm pretty sure you cannot be jailed for failing to do something you cannot do. Under some circumstances the burden may be on you to show that, on the balance of probabilities, you were unable to comply with their demands. Getting caught with anything digital at the border is a newbie error anyway. Use one of these services to store the (suitably encrypted) Khmer baby photos you took on your Asian holiday.
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May 20, 2013, 05:15:03 PM |
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IANAL but I'm pretty sure you cannot be jailed for failing to do something you cannot do. Under some circumstances the burden may be on you to show that, on the balance of probabilities, you were unable to comply with their demands. You could claim that the key file you need to decrypt the data is on an USB stick, which renders unreadable. The only thing they could do is to guess if you're lying, and where guessing comes into play (guessing here is an emotional act, not a rational one), you can get into trouble no matter if it's your fault or not.
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A friend was telling me there is a program that depending on which password you give it at bootup it will load different encrypted partitions....
TrueCrypt can do that. I don't recall such a capability within Truecrypt, but it is certainly a very robust system. For example, it provides http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability "plausible deniability" even after giving a password to a extortionist, border guard, whomever; the same would be the case if the password was hacked. Correction, I see it - this is slick!!! However, in order to boot a system encrypted by TrueCrypt, an unencrypted copy of the TrueCrypt Boot Loader has to be stored on the system drive or on a TrueCrypt Rescue Disk. Hence, the mere presence of the TrueCrypt Boot Loader can indicate that there is a system encrypted by TrueCrypt on the computer. Therefore, to provide a plausible explanation for the presence of the TrueCrypt Boot Loader, the TrueCrypt helps you create a second encrypted operating system, so-called decoy operating system, during the process of creation of a hidden operating system. A decoy operating system must not contain any sensitive files. Its existence is not secret (it is not installed in a hidden volume). The password for the decoy operating system can be safely revealed to anyone forcing you to disclose your pre-boot authentication password.*LOL...but I still like the HotCindy/Jehovah's Witness training manual method! Anyone who takes thirty minutes to read the eighty some page Truecrypt manual will be vastly smarter about these issues than before reading it. I suggest that in lieu of reading, say....this thread.... My opinion is that creating a secure machine is highly advantageous and for multiple reasons. Yet at the same time, the biggest leaks and the most common issues are the result of users' habits, such as allowing facebook or linkedin access to a contacts list associated with email, or other access allowed to apps on android or iphone.
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Cyberdyne
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May 20, 2013, 11:56:26 PM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones?
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myrkul
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May 21, 2013, 12:05:50 AM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones? I hear tell Mexico is pretty good about leaving you the hell alone.
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May 21, 2013, 05:12:17 AM |
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My password is so long they would need to get on both knees to read it
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May 21, 2013, 11:51:53 AM |
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The article specifically lays out that they don't ask for passwords. They ask the person to access his laptop and show them the emails. Less objectionable than demanding passwords....
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May 21, 2013, 11:52:53 AM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones? I hear tell Mexico is pretty good about leaving you the hell alone. Unless some thug wants your car, your money or your wife/girl.
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May 21, 2013, 02:53:04 PM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones? I hear tell Mexico is pretty good about leaving you the hell alone. Unless some thug wants your car, your money or your wife/girl. Something tells me you've never actually been there.
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May 21, 2013, 03:19:23 PM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones? I hear tell Mexico is pretty good about leaving you the hell alone. Unless some thug wants your car, your money or your wife/girl. Something tells me you've never actually been there. Then you should examine that something, and question what else it has told you wrongly about. But do note......I didn't include in what the thug might want, your passwords.
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May 21, 2013, 03:29:16 PM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones? I hear tell Mexico is pretty good about leaving you the hell alone. Unless some thug wants your car, your money or your wife/girl. Something tells me you've never actually been there. Then you should examine that something, and question what else it has told you wrongly about. What part of Mexico did you visit?
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May 21, 2013, 04:01:31 PM |
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They don't do that in free countries
Please tell me, which countries are the free ones? I hear tell Mexico is pretty good about leaving you the hell alone. Unless some thug wants your car, your money or your wife/girl. Something tells me you've never actually been there. Then you should examine that something, and question what else it has told you wrongly about. What part of Mexico did you visit? Many places, over several decades. But this thread was about the border, which of course for Mexico is the most problematic area. These days one is liable to get bored to death in the wait for the border crossing, after which the job of the US border guard in extracting your password is quite difficult.
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May 21, 2013, 04:04:58 PM |
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Many places, over several decades. But this thread was about the border, which of course for Mexico is the most problematic area.
Precisely.
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May 21, 2013, 04:09:58 PM |
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dropbox + openssl ?
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May 21, 2013, 05:35:38 PM |
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Many places, over several decades. But this thread was about the border, which of course for Mexico is the most problematic area.
Precisely. Yeah the border areas have became totally no fun. There's only one small town crossing I'll even go across. And that means passing the 50 cal on the jeep, the heavily armed mexican federalis, the US guards (and dog) with flak jackets, the shady characters loitering around.... Seems their mayor got murdered a few months back. but it's not a 3 hour wait...
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