Buy a QIC tape cartridge, as used on workstations and servers in the 1990's. Get a dyslexic child to label it with 'Snowden Docs' in faux Cyrillic and then carry that with you, in the top of your luggage.
The tape need not have anything on it, although, should you find a QIC drive, you could go for some ASCII art porn that only reveals itself if you pipe the output of dd into od. Obviously, before writing this to the drive, put some adjustments on the tape head so that a correctly calibrated drive won't read it too well.
To make sure they don't accidentally miss the tape, deliberately contaminate it with a substance of interest. A bag of fertiliser should suffice. Before you head off on your travels pop the tape in the fertiliser and give it a good rummage so that it gets suitably covered with a fine dust of known-bad-stuff.
The outcome of carrying the tape can go one of two ways. Either they give you untold hassle for 'just carrying a QIC tape' (as the headline in Slashdot screams) or they completely ignore the tape, in which case you have 'proven' the way to thwart the TSA is to carry secret documents on a legacy format.
Buy a QIC tape cartridge, as used on workstations and servers in the 1990's. Get a dyslexic child to label it with 'Snowden Docs' in faux Cyrillic and then carry that with you, in the top of your luggage.
The tape need not have anything on it, although, should you find a QIC drive, you could go for some ASCII art porn that only reveals itself if you pipe the output of dd into od. Obviously, before writing this to the drive, put some adjustments on the tape head so that a correctly calibrated drive won't read it too well.
To make sure they don't accidentally miss the tape, deliberately contaminate it with a substance of interest. A bag of fertiliser should suffice. Before you head off on your travels pop the tape in the fertiliser and give it a good rummage so that it gets suitably covered with a fine dust of known-bad-stuff.
The outcome of carrying the tape can go one of two ways. Either they give you untold hassle for 'just carrying a QIC tape' (as the headline in Slashdot screams) or they completely ignore the tape, in which case you have 'proven' the way to thwart the TSA is to carry secret documents on a legacy format.