Laptop China?

Question from a first time visitor: with upcoming business trip to China
looking possible, what problems might I get bringing a laptop into the
country?

On Aug 3, 3:06 pm, Tom P <tombn...@freenet.dd> wrote:
> Question from a first time visitor: with upcoming business trip to China
> looking possible, what problems might I get bringing a laptop into the
> country?
I traveled to China last fall with my sister and her husband. They
brought an Apple laptop and had no problems. Almost every hotel had
an ethernet connection in the room at no extra charge. We did not
look for wifi hotspots.

The conventional wisdom is to beware of espionage. If you are
worried, one recommended approach is to bring a "clean" computer with
nothing confidential on the hard drive, and to assume that someone
will be spying on all of your internet activities. Personal email and
business email with no proprietary information should be OK.

On Aug 3, 3:06 pm, Tom P <tombn...@freenet.dd> wrote:
> Question from a first time visitor: with upcoming business trip to China
> looking possible, what problems might I get bringing a laptop into the
> country?


No too much, unless you want to connect to Falungon sites, or Amnesty
International. I understand that US state dept employees traveling to
China always carry a "clean" laptop with them. So if you have any
high level trade secrets you may want to be cautious.

PeterL wrote:
> On Aug 3, 3:06 pm, Tom P <tombn...@freenet.dd> wrote:
>> Question from a first time visitor: with upcoming business trip to China
>> looking possible, what problems might I get bringing a laptop into the
>> country?
>
>
> No too much, unless you want to connect to Falungon sites, or Amnesty
> International. I understand that US state dept employees traveling to
> China always carry a "clean" laptop with them. So if you have any
> high level trade secrets you may want to be cautious.

That is exactly my concern. The reason for bringing a laptop at all is
the material essential to my work, much of which is confidential. I do
not want customs or police or anyone else snooping round and maybe
confiscating data or the whole laptop. What happens if I encrypt stuff?
Does that make it look incriminating?

On Aug 4, 9:05 am, Tom P <tombn...@freenet.dd> wrote:
> PeterL wrote:
> > On Aug 3, 3:06 pm, Tom P <tombn...@freenet.dd> wrote:
> >> Question from a first time visitor: with upcoming business trip to China
> >> looking possible, what problems might I get bringing a laptop into the
> >> country?
>
> > No too much, unless you want to connect to Falungon sites, or Amnesty
> > International.  I understand that US state dept employees traveling to
> > China always carry a "clean" laptop with them.  So if you have any
> > high level trade secrets you may want to be cautious.
>
>   That is exactly my concern. The reason for bringing a laptop at all is
> the material essential to my work, much of which is confidential. I do
> not want customs or police or anyone else snooping round and maybe
> confiscating data or the whole laptop.  What happens if I encrypt stuff?
> Does that make it look incriminating?


Never heard of Chinese customs confiscating laptops. If you have
confidential trade secrets yes do encrypt or store the stuff online
where you can access it or carry it on a memory stick.

Actually the US government has the right to confiscate anyone's
computer on entry into the US without having to give a reason. So
there.

Tom P" <tombnbnb@freenet.dd> wrote in message
news:6fmoeeFc3vglU1@mid....
> what problems might I get bringing a laptop into the country?

I understand some hotels are being required to install software to allow the
government to monitor your sessions. My experience is that web serving is
usually contracted out, so where is the software installed? It still
doesn't matter, as that would be a concern for me if I was logged into my
company website, bank account or any other site.

In the past, I also understand many legitimate websites were blocked. I am
not an expert in this area but if I hear is true, that would seriously
concern me.

rg

[Thailand]

I guess, there's no problem if you bring your own laptop during your trip. I have a friend who went brought also his own laptop and he didn't encounter any problems. There are lots of hot spots available for the internet.