I think there is a line to be drawn somewhere, and I don't know where — but taking this further, if I erase my laptop before going to the US and then restore it from a backup online, isn't this the same thing as „knowingly concealing with the intent to impede”?

And what if I don't take the laptop at all? Am I „concealing” anything? Theoretically — yes.

There has to be a limit to how far one can take the application of that law.