[ale] Fwd: Jim - cannot post this message to ALE, please post for me

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:06 AM, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> Is this a joke?
>>
>
>Well, since the topic isn't wholly a joke, may I offer this bit of
>local knowledge: Use the "Peace Bridge" as your point of entry.
>
>Customs Officials are generally tougher at the "Rainbow Bridge" point
>of entry. I suspect this is because it is nearest to "the falls," and
>they are "on the look-out" for those seeking to harm the falls or
>nearby hydro-electric power plants.
>
>Bring  passport for everyone (or birth records for the very young)!
>
>Gotta love Toronto  -- enjoy!

Hi HP, and all,

That's good info.  Thanks.

I get the concept of having proper docs, not taking plants, food, animals, antiquities, weapons, etc. without proper docs, and not acting like a terrorist.  But I'm especially interested in what to do with my computer.  I have legal stuff, but not necessarily politically correct.  And, things like my tax records and passport records are there, so I wouldn't really want it searched or seized.  Just Google something like border crossing computer horror story, etc., or review archives from the EFF, and similar organizations, and it's easy to find incidences of people being harassed without "enough" cause, and whose rights were violated.  Now, if this doesn't generally apply to the Canada / US border, that's fine with me.  But, I'm wondering if you guys have thoughts about the need to protect information.  Some people encrypt their hard drive, etc.  But, then they can demand you unlock it.  I'm thinking that if I just take a plain vanilla install of Ubuntu, in the unlikely event they want to question us, they can look all they want.  Nothing there to see.

Sincerely,

Ron


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