Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
Seem to me the solution is to create a data partition, backup an image of it before traveling, format the data partition, travel, return, restore the data partition at home. If you take anything in that partition on your trip, make it only absolutely needed on the trip. Makes good sense anyway in case you lose the laptop.
I swap hard drives in my laptop before traveling across borders. One is a "clean" version that has only the stuff I need when traveling, the other is my regular drive. It takes longer to apply the software patches than it does to swap drives.
Originally Posted by
PTravel
Please tell me more about "duress passwords." How does those work?
Originally Posted by
sbagdon
I'm guessing it's one way of setting a password that if you enter it, it'll wipe the computer (or at least the important data) in the background, and look like it's doing normal work in the foreground.
I suppose some are like that, but Truecrypt uses it to access a different partition.
IronKey thumb drives do a hardware data destruction if the wrong password is entered a set number of times.
I've had one for a building access code pin, it'll disarm the alarm, yet alert to entry-by-duress.
That's common, too.