# Entering the UK With Porn on Computer **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 28, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201 "2017-03-28T05:15:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/41 "2017-03-28T22:47:23Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > If you’re worried about that scenario, it’s possible to set up an encrypted folder with two passwords, one of which decrypts the actual contents and the other decrypts some innocuous dummy contents. See [Deniable encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption). Interesting bit of trivia. One of the early deniable encryption systems was called Rubberhose. There were two developers. One of them was Julian Assange. ---
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/42 "2017-03-28T22:54:17Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > They say you have to hit rock bottom… I’m pretty sure that’s an offense under s63(7)b of the 2008 Act 🙂 Sent from my E5823 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/43 "2017-03-29T01:41:43Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Heck, you could even live without porn (the horror) for a month. When you pry it from my moist, red hand! ---
**Author:** ![n5tp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@n5tp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/n5tp)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/44 "2017-03-29T02:01:40Z")
If your computer with porn on it breaks, don’t take it to Best Buy for repairs. > **[FBI Paid Multiple Best Buy Employees After Finding Illegal Content On Computers](https://consumerist.com/2017/01/10/fbi-paid-multiple-best-buy-employees-after-finding-illegal-content-on-computers/)** > > As we told you last spring, lawyers for a California doctor accused of possessing child pornography claimed that the FBI had paid a Best Buy employee as an informant. Recently released court docume… ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/45 "2017-03-29T02:14:36Z")
Since this involves legal advice, let’s move it to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/46 "2017-03-29T05:13:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > This thread got me thinking–a MicroSD card should be small enough to fit into a fake coin. Surely somebody has had the bright idea to sell those. [Yep](http://www.spy-coins.com/). For some reason, that company says that their quarters can’t hold a MicroSD, but [somebody can manage it](https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1CY0N54812). If you can live with only 64 GB of porn, you’d be good to go. Bah! You can get flash drive sticks of much higher capacity now. (I got some 32G recently at a surplus store quite cheaply.) Those are small enough to be concealed in your luggage safe enough for any normal search. And if you are really worried that you will get especially searched, there is always the old drug smugglers trick: encase the flash drive in a condom & insdert up your rectum. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/47 "2017-03-29T12:47:19Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Bah! > You can get flash drive sticks of much higher capacity now. (I got some 32G recently at a surplus store quite cheaply.) Those are small enough to be concealed in your luggage safe enough for any normal search. And if you are really worried that you will get especially searched, there is always the old drug smugglers trick: encase the flash drive in a condom & insdert up your rectum. Anal porn. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/48 "2017-03-29T13:07:27Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > And thanks, **TokyoBayer**. That info is useful. Sorry I didn’t find it myself! I solved it using one weird trick: Googled porn, without doing an image search. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/49 "2017-03-29T14:39:52Z")
> [@Grim\_Render](#): > > The username/question connection is strong in this one. How so? Are you assuming his “friend” is into solo porn? ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/50 "2017-03-31T01:16:27Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > snipped and bolding mine. > > FFS, the correct answer is this. In this age where everyone is going to be all up in any American’s shit just out of principle, because Trump, why would you screw around with this? We also know that laptops are under increased scrutiny because shit keeps blowing up (granted you’re probably not entering on one of the designated airlines - still). You can get more porn once you’re there or put it in a Cloud drive or whatever. Heck, you could even live without porn (the horror) for a month. > > They can take your computer, I believe, at least long enough for a thorough forensic examination. They can send you home. They can hold you for several hours. They can do all of those things. They could even add charges if they were feeling snarky. Why do it? Yeah. My friend has decided to just wipe everything questionable on his computer and not try to encrypt it or anything like that. He doesn’t want to be forced (at threat of not entering the country) to open an encrypted folder. He tells me he will be just fine without porn for the trip. After all, as I think I mentioned before; the salient point was not making sure he had porn on the trip but simply avoiding having to locate it and remove it all. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/51 "2017-03-31T01:50:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I don’t know if any religious group had anything to do with stopping it, but I remember when I was in college in the early 1990s, there were places that sometimes "had imported issues of the British magazine Mayfair in the “behind the counter” magazine racks–and I specifically remembered it to have models as young as 16. And some googling [proves that my memory wasn’t faulty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair_%28magazine%29#Legal_issues). As I recall, what happend in Aus is that there was adverse publicity surrounding the fact that Australian models were appearing in magazines that they couldn’t (as under 18) legally buy. > [@](#): > > a) An act which threatens a person’s life; this is not defined in the Act and therefore should be given its ordinary dictionary meaning. The Ministry of Justice note of " Further information on the new offence of Possession of Extreme Pornographic Images" at paragraph 11 gives examples of life threatening acts. And this, I have heard, is the reason why pictures of sitting on someones face are illegal. You might sufficate them. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/52 "2017-03-31T09:18:41Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > there is always the old drug smugglers trick: encase the flash drive in a condom & insert up your rectum. Just don’t take a picture of yourself doing so, because then you will be in possession of “an image that depicts an act which results in or is likely to result in serious injury to a person’s anus,” in contravention of Sections 63 to 67 of the aforementioned act. ---
**Author:** ![femmejean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@femmejean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femmejean)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201/53 "2017-03-31T20:17:59Z")
Honestly don’t know why OP is worrying… Unless you’re wearing a shirt with ‘Allahu Akbar’, Julian Assange etc…then I don’t think UK officials will be interested in searching your computer. To the contrary, the only bother if your ‘profile’ along with history would suggest that you would be an extremely sketchy individual… And even if they do search it, they’ll probably not go through it well. I heard that one of my classmates had nudes of his underage girlfriend but he organized his folders neatly. He was stopped because he was on a school trip but the officers jut let him go after searching 3-4 minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/entering-the-uk-with-porn-on-computer/783201.md?page=2)