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...Why is this a problem at all anymore?  Hosting is cheaap.  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 aren't 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).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.It's really sad that this is even an issue, but I do think that there are solutions to it.