Guys,

thanks for the replies.

Thankfully (for any law enforcement waiting with baited breath anyway) my post was more in line with the way good_4sh interpreted my post. I've got no fancy for being arrested either in the states or anywhere else if I can help it. After the current changes to German laws and proposed changes to the UK's Data Protection Act I just wanted to make sure I hadn't missed similiar scenarios in the States.

I definately wasn't intending taking a crack at anything whilst I'm in the air, don't want to take a swan dive cause the pilot chose 'god' for a password 

Thanks again

Hi Guys,

I've been using this site for a while but have yet to have anything relevant to add to any topic that someone hasn't beaten me to, hence first post.

I reside over the pond and I'm taking a family holiday to the States (Florida) towards the end of the year. As I'm planning to use the flights etc. to get some training and research done I'm concerned that I may fall foul of any laws etc. in the America that I am unaware of.

For reference my main incident response laptop that I will be travelling with has BackTrack 2 installed to the hard disk with a BIOS password to form some level of security (not perfect I know, but no 'real' data gets stored on the machine)

Any advice would be much appreciated,
Role Reversal