Re: Laptop service and hidden Linux

From: Dave Hall <dave-slg_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Tue Jan 30 2007 - 16:38:53 CST

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:23:24PM -0600, Scott Walde wrote:
>
> Yes, I was referring to Canadian customs, coming back. Now I wish I
> could remember where I read/heard the stories. I think one of them
> might have been on talk radio... I remember a fairly detailed
> explanation of how the customs agent used the 'find pictures' feature on
> the guys laptop which surprised him when it found his browser cache.
> But I'm pretty sure that wasn't the Linux specific story I heard. That
> one talked about a guy losing his Linux laptop for several months
> because the border guys thought something was fishy about it.

I recall something about that but I don't recall where. I think it might
have been on the SANS newsbites list I found the link. Of course, I can't
find it again.
Received on Tue Jan 30 16:39:47 2007

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