[old curmudgeon]

I don’t do international travel, but for the sake of discussion lets say that I do.

So I am on a trip that involves bidding on a big contract and all of the sensitive info must be in my computer.

I take a naked laptop loaded with only the operating system and a few very basic things to make it look like my regular machine.

But all of the sensitive contract info is on a thumb drive.

When I get ready to come home, I send the contents of the business meeting to my home or company machine by encrypted email.

Then I format the thumb drive or clean it.

Then I smash it with a rock, hammer or whatever is handy.

I then dump it in some place, in little pieces, and go across the border with the laptop loaded with a few poker games, checkers, my basic (nothing sensitive) mail and phone list.....and let them look at that all they want.

[dennisw]

Will not work because your C drive with your OS will keep some of the information you think only exists on the thumb drive. You could>>>>

Take that blank laptop abroad. Upload anything you create into an Amazon, Microsoft or Google cloud service/

Before returning home you reformat your laptops hard drive thereby erasing all you did. Also you could mechanically destroy the hard drive and trash it before returning to America. So you return home with a laptop with no hard drive.