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more about #border more comments → [DFX] Deimos: Encrypt your hard drive with TruCrypt and have a strong password (which you should anyways). -OR- When you travel overseas use it as a thin client a... more » d_r_e: This shit better not happen to me when I leave to go on tour in Europe/Japan ... I'll be fucking furious. more » atheos: If I were a terrorist, I'd just make an image of my hard drive, put it somewhere online, fly to U.S., buy some cheap junk PC from Best Buy and downloa... more » thebigcheese: So... adding "respectively" doesn't really clarify what you are talking about when you mention 2 maximum days, but 3 different items. It also doesn't ... more » DustyButt™: The one thing I don't think anyone mentioned is how weak our border security is in the first place. If someone had some truly nefarious information o... more » OMG! Ponies!: Here's my good deed for the day: BORDER SEARCHES DO NOT REQUIRE A WARRANT The rules regarding search-and-seizure has always been that border searche... more » Paul Combs: It's not necessarily the searching I have a problem with, it is the fact that the Border Patrol, and anyone else for that matter, can do it without a... more » Michael Singletary: "I guess I'm OK with it." This is a HUGE problem and contributes to letting the government get away with this sort of crap. You shouldn't be OK with ... more » Tim Wayne: "Given those numbers, I guess I'm OK with it. As long as it's only the terrorism and kiddy porn stuff they're after." Bullshit. I don't care if some ... more » Dearhaw: Low numbers mean squat, if those searches were unwarranted. One, would be one too many. more » Elliuotatar: My opinion is that the border control shouldn't be snooping around in people's private data at all. But since privacy is not very high on most Amer... more » weatherman: "Given those numbers, I guess I'm OK with it." So I guess by the same logic you'd be fine with, say, imprisoning a thousand people without due proces... more » FritzLaurel: You're okay with it?!? Are you crazy? You're only saying that because you've never had your laptop, the thing which you make money with, your liveli... more » -
#homelandsecurity
Homeland Security: We Can Still Search Your Laptop, But We'll be Nicer About It
Your laptop, mobile phone or camera can still be seized at the U.S border without suspicion of wrongdoing, but new guidelines require border protection and customs to take a maximum of 5 and 30 days each to complete searches. More » -
#concepts
Wrap-Around Screen Phone Concept Don't Need No Bezels
This concept from Mac Funamizu is designed to show how truly badass a phone with an OLED-wrap display could look. The most important advance? No more bezels or borders of any kind. A concept like this makes even the iPhone look cluttered, with that primitive silver border. It's a great little design, inspired by the Nokia Aeon concept, and we'd love to see the wrap-around screen idea on a real phone someday. [Boing Boing Gadgets] -
#security
Z Portal Strip Searches Cars at the Border, Is No Tunnel of Love
You know the recently deployed airport scanners that see through your clothes and show your bits 'n' pieces to some dude supposedly in a locked closet? Called backscatter, the tech been re-jiggered into a portal that cars crossing the border will have to drive through, allowing border agents to search your car without, you know, actually searching your car. The Z Portal will obviously strip-search anyone driving it, too, but a Customs spokesman swear it's less revealing than the staticky porn your dad used to watch on an old TV.Updated. More » -
#nsfwgadgets
Sexual Gadgets Can Now Be Seized at US Borders Too
First it was liquid bottles. Then laptops. And now they are seizing our penis extensors, penis pumpers, and other sexual gadgets. The FDA is saying that they represent a real risk and federal border agents have now a guideline to confiscate them at US territory entry points. The list would be hilarious if it weren't so surreal and stupid: More » -
#laptops
EFF's Guide to Border Laptop Searches
You already knew that customs officials can search your laptop if they feel like it, detaining you if you refuse, but what can you do to protect yourself from random dudes checking out your vacation pics? The EFF has some tips. There's having multiple encrypted partitions, having secure passwords, shutting off your machine before searches and destroying naughty stuff semi-permanently with shredding applications. Hit up the link for more privacy tips. [EFF]
