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It feels like an eternity since I wrote about the Crime and Policing Bill for Mu. In that article, I warned of many new threats on the horizon for those who must live in - or interact with - the UK. That bill has now passed and will soon come into force. In this article, I will focus on just one of the horrifying new proposals, as I did with the ban on 'looks young' porn. Today, we're going to take a look at mandatory device scanning at the UK border.

https://www.brianribbon.com/home/dealin ... ing-regime

The one thing I'll say is that such powers do already exist in some countries. In a previous job, we had a policy that we had to take either clean new computers overseas or purchase machines once there since it was always assumed that a machine could be scanned which could compromise company secrets. Any data needed when overseas would be accessible over a secure VPN from company servers.

I think learning from that, citizens have to adopt a similar posture. Only take a clean installed OS and make materials available in secure encrypted forms.