TrueCrypt Volumes: Will it cause any trouble?
From various sources (mainly friends and dubious internet sites) I heard that you can get in trouble if you have encrypted volumes/files on your laptop while entering USA. Apparently they assume that you have something to hide and you could be a potential terrorist. Is this really true or just a Urban Legend?
To be more concrete: I have some (hidden) TrueCrypt volumes on my laptop. When I enter the USA, could I get into trouble? And can they force me to decrypt the files?
Best Answer
I think it's highely unlikely for you to have a problem if you are just a Joe Soap. Lots of people travel through US airports all the time with laptops.
If you are known by their intelligence agencies to be engaged in terrorist or espionage activities, and you go through their airports, then yes, you can expect them to search you more.
It seems to be a bit of an internet meme that the USA is now some sort of fascist dictatorship, although civil liberties have decreased in recent years, there are actual dictatorships which are much worse than the USA now.
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I've entered the US many times (as a citizen), nobody has ever looked at my laptop, let alone my flash drives.
Admittedly I have never been coming from a sex-tourist country and as an adult I've never come without my wife next to me.
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