As you may know, the our border agents have started to require various travelers (i.e. the shifty-looking ones that try to cross borders) who happen to have tech gadgets with them to turn those gadgets on, login, mount encrypted drives, etc., so that those agents can make copies. I’m not planning to leave the country, but I’m also not interested in taking chances here.
Normally while the gross invasion of privacy of others bothers me, the actual fact of this sort of behavior does not, because I usually don’t travel with my various vitally private files (usually to do with cryptography) with me.
This has changed since I started using a USB key and portable applications to do what of my personal business I do at work. Until this morning, I had GPG, GPGShell and my GPG/PGP keys on my USB key that I use for portable computing. Now I don’t. The alternative was to keep that stuff on my USB key but put them in a hidden cryptography volume. I decided that was probably too fiddly and I didn’t need that stuff with me that badly.
But why would I think about it at all?