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> You are asked when you check in if anyone has given you anything to carry for them. You presumably answered "no" to that question, yet now you're saying "Yes, they asked me to carry this unknown data".

Not necessarily. You could have encrypted the data to your friend's asymmetric keypair. Then you aren't technically carrying any data other than your own.

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Clever, but try explaining that to these people. Most barely seem to have a high school diploma, much less understand encryption.

I have a box that I put a lock on, I left the keys to this lock with my friend and he will send it to me when I get to my destination.

Ok, well done. :)

why not just actually put your laptop in a lockbox like that?

And then hide your drugs inside the laptop.

Why would you need to explain anything at all?

"Has anyone given you anything to carry for them?"

No.

That is precisely what I meant when I said that I encrypt my laptop and have someone else choose the password.

Is that "unkown data" as the guy above you seems to believe? Hardly. If I pack my suitcase and then just have a friend come in with a padlock to which only he holds the key and he locks it, are the contents on my suitcase unknown to me? No, they aren't. They are my belongings and I just chose, for security reasons to not only stop carrying the key on me but to not even knowing what that key is.

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