Yes, but you can just carry encrypted hard drive with you. Hiding encrypted data is useful pretty much only for legal reasons. You want to take it across border and are worried TSA agent will force you to decrypt it or something. What is safer in that case? Carrying a USB stick with hidden encrypted partition or not carrying anything at all and downloading the data later? I would say the latter. Smuggling encrypted data through custom checks into a war zone with limited internet access is the cool but unlikely spy games scenario I was talking about. Encrypted microSD card would be even more secure in that case.
The “war zone” was referring to difficult internet access. Iran recently cut off entire country from internet. If you’re going to USA you may be inspected but you will most likely get internet access once you crossed the border.
Yes, but you can just carry encrypted hard drive with you. Hiding encrypted data is useful pretty much only for legal reasons. You want to take it across border and are worried TSA agent will force you to decrypt it or something. What is safer in that case? Carrying a USB stick with hidden encrypted partition or not carrying anything at all and downloading the data later? I would say the latter. Smuggling encrypted data through custom checks into a war zone with limited internet access is the cool but unlikely spy games scenario I was talking about. Encrypted microSD card would be even more secure in that case.
to a war zone? such inspections are done not only in unlikely scenarious like when going to “a war zone”
The “war zone” was referring to difficult internet access. Iran recently cut off entire country from internet. If you’re going to USA you may be inspected but you will most likely get internet access once you crossed the border.
They’d probably just confincate the drive if it’s obviously encrypted.