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If I am ever traveling to US, I am wiping the system, installing a clean, stock Linux distribution without any encryption, keeping everything valuable at home.

Once I am behind the border, I am reinstalling the system with encryption, then proceed to download key material and other important stuff from home over the internet.

I am never letting anyone near my unlocked laptop and if I ever find it turned off e.g. while visiting office toilet, I just assume it has been infected with firmware level rootkit and I am wiping it without decrypting.

If it's removed from my sight during the border check, I assume the same, purchase a new one in a brick-and-mortar shop and sell the infected one when I am back home.



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