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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:00
John R Levine (johnl@iecc.com)
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:32:47 -0400 (EDT)
> >A spokesman for Customs and Excise said officials would routinely
> >scan laptops for illegal material such as pornography. Encrypted
> >files will be treated in the same way as a ordinary luggage. "So far
> >as we are concerned, there is no difference between an encrypted
> >file and a locked suitcase," said the spokesman. "All travellers
> >entering the country should be prepared to have their equipment
> >scanned.".
Unless the customs officials in the UK are a whole lot more sophisticated
than all of the other customs officials I've ever met, I suspect that to
avoid having one's encrypted documents snooped it would be more than adequate
to change the name of files that might attract scrutiny from
TopSecretHighlyPornographicDocument-Encrypted.PGP to wzg944.dll.
I suppose this is the digital equivalent of wrapping your Cuban cigars in the
poopy diapers.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:00