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Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US?
casualsax3 writes "I'm going to be taking a week long round trip from NYC to Puerto Vallarta Mexico sometime next month, and I was planning on taking my laptop with me. I'll probably want to rip a few movies and albums to the drive in order to keep busy on the flight. More important though, is that I'm also going to be taking pictures while I'm there, and storing them on the laptop. With everything in the news, I'm concerned that I'll have to show someone around the internals of my laptop coming back into the US. The pictures are potentially what upsets me the most, as I feel it's an incredible violation of my privacy. Do I actually need to worry about this? If so, should I go about hiding everything? I've heard good things about Truecrypt. Is it worth looking into or am I being overly paranoid?"
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That would actually be a neat trick. Photoshop a few pictures of you along with high-ranking government officials. Put the pictures among your personal pictures on your computer so the agent will stumble upon them should he want to look through your images (preferably sorted along the top so he'll actually see them). See if that helps you get better treatment :-)