I travel abroad a lot and am pretty sure I'm on a special NSA list at this point or will be soon. Besides all my anti-NSA tweets and emails, I've donated money to support Snowden, Lavabit, ACLU, EFF and Ron Paul. I guess it's time to pick up some cheap laptops that I'm okay losing to the border thieves.
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.
Exactly what makes you think that there's a "special NSA list"? There are anti-NSA activists who are routinely harassed at borders, but those people are actually implicated in the leaks themselves.
The USG does not give a shit if you donate to ACLU or Ron Paul.
When you're setting up an authoritarian state, one of the first things you do is try to silence dissenters. If/when this will start happening on a large scale in the US I don't know, but there's no denying the ground work has been laid. Easily accessible records of everyone who has privately or publicly expressed anti-government sentiment? Check. A constitution-free zone at the border? Check. Indefinite detention of US citizens without trial? Check. A militarized local police force. Check. A general population that has become desensitized to their loss of liberty like a frog slowly boiled to death. Check.
It's becoming more and more clear that the USG didn't set up all this infrastructure to fight terrorism. Forgive me for assuming the worst. I'm just connecting the dots.
