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Old Jul 29, 2010 | 1:43 pm
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Originally Posted by gglave
What no one seems able to tell me is whether you are required by law to hand over your encryption password for your computer, i.e. if customs takes your computer and it has full-disk encryption, are you required by law to hand over the password so they can examine the computer? What happens if you say "I choose to not give you the password." Are you arrested and charged with an offence?
from what I understand, is the answer is depends. If you are leaving your home country, they can deny you entrance to the new country, and send you home. If returning home, they could confiscate the hardware and get a court order to have the password provided.

But those are my thoughts, not facts.

And if your going to go through the trouble of encrypting your entire disk, why not have a phantom partition as well.
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