Yes, you heard correctly. I remember a talk at a past LegalTech conference where the panelists urged anyone doing a lot of traveling (especially to 'sensitive' parts of the world) to simply travel with a 'spare' laptop, and keep everything important on encrypted USB drives, which can be sent through the mail in tamper-resistant packaging. It solves several problems:
1. Confidential data won't be compromised during a border search, theft, accident, etc..
2. You avoid the issue of being forced to give up your passwords to law enforcement.
3. If the laptop is confiscated, it can take months to get it back, so you wouldn't want that to happen to your main work machine.
1. Confidential data won't be compromised during a border search, theft, accident, etc..
2. You avoid the issue of being forced to give up your passwords to law enforcement.
3. If the laptop is confiscated, it can take months to get it back, so you wouldn't want that to happen to your main work machine.