Now this is actually dumb, but I’m curious and quite paranoid so might ask anyway. I’m moving to Japan in March to go to grad school and bringing my 3 external hard drives. They are:
1. Filled with my past photos and videos I made from my photography hobby. However, as I checked I found my old JAV folder (the censored ones not the uncensored). It is hidden under subfolders and subfolders though.
2. A data backup of my past projects, but some there are some anime and j-drama.
3. An internal SSD in an enclosure, with a quite large collection of pirated manga.
I searched about this, and people mostly said airport security won’t check the contents of the drives, but I do feel paranoid because I feel like a suspicious person because in my check-in luggage I will be bringing:
1. A gift from my grandmother, a set of 5 kitchen knives. They are not opened yet from the packaging, and it will be triple wrapped of course.
2. Exactly the maximal amount of the allowed cigarettes, 10 packs with 20 pieces each.
3. A 45L carrier backpack. I’m planning to do a bit of weekend travelling when/if I’m not busy with university or part-time work, and I’m the type of person who prefer to use a backpack for a 2- or 3-day trip.
So, I thought I just ask anyway to ease my mind. Or should I just be safe and stop my digital hoarding tendency and delete them (some of it IS porn anyway). Thank you and sorry for being dumb!
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You know what, go ahead. Don’t stop there and film the entire experience on twitch. Won’t be any less of a disaster than Ice Poseidon.
I’m certainty not getting tired of these brain aneurysm inducing posts but this sub is certainly giving Jlyfe a run for it’s money in terms of outright degeneracy.
Are you worried that security will find your drives, plug them into a computer, search all the files, find your anime, search some sort of database of all purchases of anime to see if you have legally downloaded it, discover that you have not legally downloaded it, and then report you to the Japanese equivalent of the MPAA for piracy?
They won’t.
I have never had customs in any country I’ve traveled to try to check the contents of any media I was carrying. The closest scrutiny I ever had was entering Canada when they ran some vacuum thing over the keyboard of my laptop and explained they were looking for traces of bomb materials.
r/veracrypt
Never tell the police you don’t want to decrypt your drive for them, tell them you forgot the password.
I always hate it when security is giving me a prostate exam and then tell me they want my browsing history.