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Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search?

Posted by timothy on from the rot-26 dept.

Bruce66423 writes: In the light of the British police's seizure of a BBC laptop what is the right configuration and practices to ensure that such a seizure provides zero information to the cops? This post from Thursday might be a good place for some ideas, but that one's expressly about securing a Chromebook; what would you advise for securing a more conventional laptop? (Or desktop, for that matter.)

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  1. Step by step instructions by spiritplumber · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) Make one of these: https://hackaday.com/2015/10/1...

    2) Hand everything over. Warn the bad guys that if they try to use your USB stick, it'll fry their computer.

    3) When they fry their computer, ask if they have learned their lesson about taking you on your word.

    4) Be cooperative. You already won the battle of wits, be a gracious winner.

    5) Your data was on your obscure self-hosted webserver elsewhere in the first place.

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