Customs-Proofing Your Laptop

Declan McCullagh's Politech has some suggestions on protecting your laptop contents at border crossings. The article is really a clarion call to the insufficiently paranoid among us, that some border goon might be copying off your contents, or loading spyware on your machine. Gone are the days when some had never seen a laptop (as happened to me long ago in Mexico), and you could just tell them it was a portable typewriter.