At 11:37 PM 9/21/98 -0400, Lazlo Toth wrote:
When you're taking your laptop through customs, you do nothing while the machine boots up, the doctored BIOS does its thing, and everybody's happy. When you want to get at the stuff on the rest of the HD, you reboot and type in your passphrase.
As I recall, this thread is about customs officials booting your laptop from *their* floppy and scanning your hard drive. I suggest two practical solutions to avoid this incursion: 1) Leave the floppy drive at home ;-) Many PCs have swapable floppy/ CD-ROM bays. I've learned to live without my floppy (others may not have that option.) 2) If you can't leave your floppy at home, carry your sensitive data on a PCMCIA Type-II Hard Drive. Kingston sells one sporting 500MB of capacity. Pop it out and put it as far away from the laptop as you can. Inside your other luggage somewhere. -MpH -------- Mark P. Hahn Work: 212-278-5861 mhahn@tcbtech.com Home: 609-275-1834 TCB Technologies, Inc (mhahn@tcbtech.com) Consultant to: The SoGen Funds 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NY NY