Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border
Interestingly, I just had a discussion with my roomate about this.  We were sitting in a coffee shop, and he was mad at himself because he forgot the latest copy of a game he is working on at the house...<p>Why is this a problem <i>at all</i> anymore?  Hosting is <i>cheaap</i>.  I have a linux VPS at linode that I pay $20/mo for and almost everything that i do is stored there.  Honestly, the only things I can think of that <i>aren't</i> stored on that machine (which trades nightly rsyncs with another machine with a different provider and on a different network) are minecraft, my music collection, some photos, and a journal that I just started keeping a couple of weeks ago (gets encrypted with 256bit AES and lives in the home dir on my laptop).<p>My point is that there is absolutely no reason to keep anything on your local machine anymore, at least not ones that I can think of.  Why not keep a server in the basement, and then just run SSH with X11 forwarding?  Keep a cheap, disposable machine with you and if something like this happens, sell it and buy a new one.<p>It's really sad that this is even an issue, but I do think that there are solutions to it.