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Sigh.. Bad government policy. A real bad deal for the PEOPLE! Unconstitutional. Wake up you foolish sleeping Americans, your government is stepping all over your rights!
Read this website - www.truecrypt.org to review REAL (and free) encryption for THE ENTIRE hard drive, even before the OS starts. The DHS can copy the hard drive all they want, they won't get anything but random data. Don't give out your password!
Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
1) Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.
2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish.
I find it sad that Americans have become so complacent. I am Canadian and we used to look down at you guys (Americans) with a profound respect. We have always known that we are wusses, but when I was a kid we used to say things like 'If the American government tried to do this to THEIR citizens, there would be riots or an assassination.' We knew that Americans valued their liberty and freedom above all else and that they would protect them regardless of the cost to self. What has happened to that proud and noble attitude? Wake up, yankees, you are becoming apathetic and complacent. You are becoming weak, liberal, and Canadian.
If it is OK for the government to confiscate our laptops and other devices at their border checkpoints, without probable cause, how long will it be before they take the same action at the domestic checkpoints in the nation's airports?
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