Slideshow: Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs

VIEW SLIDESHOW Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs Fourth amendment be damned. With U.S. Customs agents increasingly interested in the contents of digital devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued guidance for getting your...

Use the Cloud

When it comes to search and seizure by customs agents, the cloud is your friend. A plethora of online services today make it easy to simply copy your sensitive data – or your entire drive’s contents – up to a hosted storage server. Once again, you’ll want to make sure that the connection to...

Snail mail the data

Another way to avoid having your digital privacy intruded upon is to backup all the data onto an external hard drive, USB drive or SD card making sure the content of your backup is encrypted, of course. You can then ship the data to your destination. With your data copied off the device, you can...

Snail mail the device

Don’t want to have your device seized when you cross the border? Why not just stick it in the mail? True: there are no privacy protections afforded to data sent by post. But you can avoid awkward confrontations with border agents if you mailed it and you won’t be questioned about your devices or...

Don't just 'delete,' – DELETE!

Many of EFF’s recommendations involve copying data onto an external device and then removing it from the device you’ll be carrying across the border. When doing this, you will want to make sure that the data you delete is actually gone. Simply pressing the ‘delete’ key or emptying the desktop was...

Encrypt!

The EFF are huge proponents of full-disk encryption with strong cryptography on every device you own. This is especially true if you’re concerned about having your mobile device seized at the border. A government forensics expert can easily crack any password or bypass it altogether for example, ...

Identify devices at risk of search

Searches and seizure is not limited to personal computers or laptops. Any device that stores data is fair game for Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE Agents. This includes all computers, laptops, tablets, mp3 and mobile media players, digital cameras,...

Know who you're dealing with

The EFF has some advice for interacting with border agents. First: don’t lie to them. This is a punishable crime regardless of whether you are lying to cover something up or not. It is always better to decline answering than it is to give a false answer. Don’t obstruct an Agent’s investigation or...

Fourth Amendment be damned

With U.S. Customs agents increasingly interested in the contents of digital devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued guidance for getting your mobile device across the border safely and protecting the data on it should it get seized. The Fourth...

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Cyber crime, online fraud and copyright infringement are growing rapidly in Taiwan as law enforcement officials, law makers and the courts struggle to stay abreast of the problem, according to a local prosecutor says. In a Webcast presented to students and faculty at Harvard’s Berkman Center for...

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Credit card giant Visa Inc. said on Thursday that an update to its anti-fraud technology will make it easier to spot sophisticated credit card fraud that spans national borders. Visa said the update amounted to a major upgrade of Visa Advanced Authentication, the company’s real time risk scoring...

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PT-2010-4507 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xr

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco IOS XR versions 3.4.0 through 3.9.1 Description: The issue arises when Cisco IOS XR does not properly handle unrecognized transitive attributes in BGP, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service peering reset via a crafted...

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