Mayor of Stockton, CA detained by DHS at SFO, forced to give up laptop password

and apparently you don’t travel with a phone either. Good for you.

I did not. I said what I would do, because I know what I have and do not have on my device. Which will be absolutely free and clear of any sensitive material.

Define these words.

######naked pictures of miriam and ilana next door goddammit how many times do we have to go over this

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Do you travel to countries where encryption software is illegal?

And are Miriam and Ilana likely to have power over law enforcement?

(Completely uninterested party asking…)

Miriam starts out encrypted and then likes to decrypt, but Ilana prefers to stay decrypted most of the time.

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Wait, which one’s Miriam?

This one:

ツァる砥樊 マ禺婨秞楜 あ榯盨簣え

Dare Google this? Y/N

'#OhthankFSMitsjustajapaneseloremipsumgenerator

I told you she likes to start out encrypted, but you had to go googling. Give her a few minutes.

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Not to my knowledge. Such as?

China, I think, and also Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.

This suggests others.

https://www.princeton.edu/itsecurity/encryption/encryption-and-internatio/

This is involved somehow. I don’t claim to know anything about it, though.

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The Wassenaar Agreement is more complex than it initially appears and signatories do not outlaw encryption (or we wouldn’t have any).

No, I don’t go to China or the Axis of Evil. :smile:
I go to Europe on occasion and sometimes Thailand and Japan (for fun!).

Ahem, I think there’s someone here who would talk your ear off about steganography. A certain dude with a blue dragon avatar, who seems to have technical knowledge of everything.

But seriously, steganography works and is freaking mindblowing. As a teen I was able to stash my collection of porn (this was before I had broadband) in our family’s digitized home movies. You can’t really store an image inside another comparably sized image, but storing several thousand images steganographically inside a couple hundred gigabytes of birthday and wedding footage MPEG2s is a breeze.

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One problem with steganography is… did your parents ever wonder why you locked yourself into your room with the family home movies AGAIN?

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Oh no, we had a family PC in the living room at the time. I had to be a master of logistics. My mother had a samsung blackjack II with a gps and windows mobile 6. I was able to keep tabs on whether she was coming home. My dad was always the wildcard though. He still doesn’t carry a cellphone.

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This dialogue is from Raising Arizona, isn’t it?

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When I entered China, they didn’t seem to even consider looking at my laptop.