So
I'm concerned about having my laptop legally stolen at U.S. borders, or sort-of-legally stolen by TSA [or totally illegally stolen by baggage handlers] when I check it in. Ignoring the two other cases, I considered putting my data on an encrypted partition on the laptop. That's not so hard these days, with linux (and windows too, except I don't use windows). But that doesn't fix the first case either. If anything, it would just raise red flags for TSA and U.S. customs, and they'd confiscate the laptop and probably detain me until I told them the passphrase. And then I'd go to jail since the passphrase might be something very uncomplimentary to the TSA.
So, no, encrypting /home wouldn't help. It's probably still a good idea for another use case, where I get held up and the laptop gets stolen. At least there would be no leaks of proprietary information. So I may do that anyway. But it won't help at U.S. borders.
Alright, I've convinced myself. Now I just need to backup the data so I can wipe out /home and setup the encrypted partition :-).
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