Tywais Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 I'm a strong advocate of redundant backup systems. I have two backups at home, one internal drive and one external. I also have the same backup on two drives located at a physically separate location, my office. The same for cloud storage can be done. I have the following free cloud storage accounts. Microsoft SkyDrive Google Drive Asus cloud storage - came free with my Asus tablet CX Dropbox - Also the add on Boxcryptor which automatically encrypts files before putting them on the Dropbox cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigt3365 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I've been back and forth dozens of times. Never been asked to open my laptop. Never. To what countries please? Pretty much only between here and the US. A few times from Europe. But I do remember years ago you use to have to turn your laptop on. It was a real pain as they took so long to boot!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tywais Posted February 1, 2014 Author Share Posted February 1, 2014 I've been back and forth dozens of times. Never been asked to open my laptop. Never. To what countries please? But I do remember years ago you use to have to turn your laptop on. It was a real pain as they took so long to boot!!! I had a Gateway computer at the time and can relate with that. Worse, if your battery was dead than you had to dig out your power adapter, if you remembered to bring it along, and plug it into a power outlet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketrichard Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 i was randomlay seltected to be searched 3 years ago on a trip into sf, he opened my bags, but didn't look at the computer or the external hard drive i aksed him why and he told me they select every 10-14 passenger at random. He was a nice guy and we were talking as had my camera equipment an when i told him i lived in Thailand he was all , "How is it" still only took about 5 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon43 Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 Last time I returned to the UK (7 years ago), they took me into a side room and swabbed my old laptop for cocaine residues... !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Betcha this guy wishes they never looked at hard drives in airport arrivals... http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/28/us-usa-florida-missionary-idUSBREA0R1WE20140128 I'm glad they caught the guy, but this doesn't paint a pretty picture for privacy rights. Unless they had reason to search his data before hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLCrab Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 I've not brought a laptop to USA the last 3 out of last 4 times I traveled to USA since I bought a new one each of those 3 times -- I think I'll do the same later this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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