2005 Photo Gallery

**Freeler** · 10-19-05 18:00

1ball,

"how a customs officer can actually ask to look inside your laptop"

Better wake up! It is luggage, so they can! If they ever will is a whole different question.

**BKK Dreaming** · 10-19-05 17:43

You have no rights till you enter the USA, which means going past the custom agents.

They can look at what they want, do a body search, whatever.

And now with everyone considered a terrorist they have even more powers.

And deleting them from your hard drive does not take them off the hard drive unless you write over that section, the info is still there if you use Norton etc to recover it.

**Khanaan** · 10-19-05 16:34

Fuck me she's sexy but she got snakes eyes.. I can see that woman taking lots of people for a ride.

Originally Posted by Smoke & Mirrors

If anyone sees this one,Non Bg btw, Run for the hills, her whole Village,Water Buffalo's included goes with her.

**1Ball** · 10-19-05 16:03

I have never heard of such a thing. I fly into SFO from SE Asia about 8 or 9 times a year, and have NEVER been asked if I even have a computer with me.
Any legal eagles out there (Ljohnson) who can tell us if this is even legal? I don't see how, given all the consumer protection agencies, privacy acts, etc, how a customs officer can actually ask to look inside your laptop, let alone have me agree to it. JMHO

**Freeler** · 10-19-05 15:57

Hiding files, encryption and shared-files-sites...

All very nice, hiding and encrypting partitions, but even a simple proggie like Partition Magic easily finds the hidden bits. Unless the hidden part is very small, and if you're hiding just a few MBs, better send them by email...

Megaupload.com and other share-files-sites really are no better than YahooMail or G-mail. The only difference is that you can send larger files at once.

**Member #3410** · 10-19-05 06:53

Come to NZ - never checked - Thank God.

**Turbo Pascal** · 10-18-05 09:02

In last months, many officers started to learn the techniques of hiding pictures in PC. They easily find the hidden pictures in these days. IMHO, you use some evidence cleaner, encryption and stealth programs. By using google, you can find these programs.

Originally Posted by Long91

From another Forum:
Just got back to the US after a month in TH. As I was coming thru customs the officer ask me to open my laptop and scanned it for .jpgs and asked if I had any movies.

I had a few pics of some girls with their clothes on but, thanks to the increasing trend of TH girls knowing about their pics possibly appearing on the internet, did not have many explicit shots.

The way the officer did the search was (in windows) to go to "search" and search for all .jpg files using the wildcard *

One could easily defeat this by with a number of ways:
- do a mass rename of .jpg files to something other files extension - I'm sure there is probably shareware to do this
- in windows properties, "hide" the files and make sure "show hidden files" is not selected in windows folder properties
- switch drives
- burn everything to a CD (but then you have to hide the CD)

**The Traveler** · 10-17-05 22:48

Originally Posted by Long91

The way the officer did the search was (in windows) to go to "search" and search for all .jpg files using the wildcard *

One could easily defeat this by with a number of ways:
- do a mass rename of .jpg files to something other files extension - I'm sure there is probably shareware to do this
- in windows properties, "hide" the files and make sure "show hidden files" is not selected in windows folder properties
- switch drives
- burn everything to a CD (but then you have to hide the CD)

Long91,

even better, use an encrypted container or an encrypted virtual drive.

**Bill Lee** · 10-17-05 22:30

yahoo offers 1 gb free, 2 gb of paid space. gmail offers about 2.5 gb free e-mail space.

there's a free upload site call www.dropload.com. you can upload 100 mb and e-mail yourself the photos. of course you should zip them up first. with so much to upload, you should time it at night while you're asleep.

then i heard about megaupload.com from the china board. never used it myself. check it out yourself.

there's always pgp encryption software for your files.

lastly, it's not illegal to bring into the u.s. photos of nude women. however, you better be sure they are not photos of **** girls. most likely us customs was looking for child porn. if you're caught with one or two sets of nude women having sex, you can always claim they are your girlfriends. no laws broken here. but no country will put up with a ****. stay away from the child porn stuff.

stay legal,
bill

Originally Posted by frequent flier

sorry to post this here, but all you have to do is start a yahoo account. it is free and you get 100gb of space. while you are traveling you email the pictures to yourself and delete them from your hard drive. you can always view them while you are traveling by logging back on to yahoo. when you get home you just download them again. preferably to a portable hard drive that you can hide or lock away if your worried about others looking at them. copy and paste to this site for portable hard drives. http://www.archos.com/

**Berty Boy** · 10-17-05 22:02

Long91,

Atfer having my photos deleted by a TG (see my report in the Pattaya section)
I thought about bringing my laptop but decided instead to invest in a portable harddrive. It about the size of a walkman and takes all the media cards. You just plug your card in, copy and then delete the images from your card.When you get home just connect to your computer and tranfers all your files.

**BKK Dreaming** · 10-17-05 12:02

I had US Customs view my floppy disc files (Sony FD camera)

I had nothing on them but tourist pics etc, but wnder what would happen if I had "art" pictures ?

Where are there the published regulations on what is OK to have ?

**DRRonin** · 10-17-05 05:08

"And if you want to go BB, it's your own life, and you are welcome to your own informed decision. And anyone who wants to condemn you for it has no business to do so"

Hmmm I am not sure I agree with that - I actually don't want any of the girls dying of AIDS either - so I do have an issue with guys who go BB - they may not effect me but they may spread HIV to many many girls and I think thats quite tragic and totally selfish on the part of guys who do this. Don't the lives of these girls count?

**Long91** · 10-17-05 04:47

Originally Posted by Asian Monger #2

Long91,

Are you referring to the US customs? I'm planning to visit BKK on business and need to bring my notebook. It has all the "stuff" in the hard drive.

Do the Thai Customs scan my notebook for those "kind" of files?

AM2

That was from the sfredbook forum. Some say it was a hassle for single men with a laptop coming back in through US customs.

**Coma Boy** · 10-17-05 04:32

The Thai authorities have never looked at my laptop, but it happened on the way out of Vietnam once. Luckily they didn't search for images, they simply looked through My-Docs, and My-Pics, which were folders I hadn't used.

One thing though, when the Thai police raid a Westerner's home, the first things they look for are drugs in the cupboards, and obscene images in the PC.

**Frequent Flier** · 10-17-05 04:28

Sorry to post this here, but all you have to do is start a yahoo account. It is free and you get 100GB of space. While you are traveling you email the pictures to yourself and delete them from your hard drive. You can always view them while you are traveling by logging back on to yahoo. When you get home you just download them again. Preferably to a portable hard drive that you can hide or lock away if your worried about others looking at them. Copy and paste to this site for portable hard drives. http://www.archos.com/

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