<![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> This really makes me dread my return to the States in June.

jamar0303

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @Hanke:
That's what I was thinking. One is no good without the other. "Sorry sir, you have scanned this (hdd) and swabbed it, this is not the bomb you are looking for." They can detain you again for not complying to put it back in, but you could arguably say "I saw all the hooplay and decided to mail my HDD and that this is just a drive you are bringing to the office". It "won't work" with this computer. *shrug*

squeevey

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> If I needed to travel, I'd just sock away my user account on an external drive and make a dummy account for them.

The Mac OS X permissions system should prevent them from doing too much in this case.

Anticitizen

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> why create so much friction for air travelers in the US? what about laptops with multiple users? would they go through all 99 of them ^^?

kenleewrites

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @fuzzylollipop:
It doesn't matter if your battery is dead. They have physical access to your computer. This means they can remove the hard drive, make a complete bit-for-bit disk image, and maybe not even give it back to you.

fizgiged

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Why is everyone saying "just don't give them your password" or "encrypt it all" etc?

It won't work. If you refuse, they will seize the laptop, detain you in prison, or deport you.

So at the very least, you'll lose your laptop (and cellphone, and other equipment they decide to seize). If you're a citizen, that's probably all that'll happen (besides maybe a week behind bars). If you're not a citizen, it's back on the first plane for you, sans equipment.

The biggest concern comes from business people so far because they're afraid of corporate espionage, especially since laptops have been seized and people have been fighting for over two years trying to get it back. Effectively, it's gone...

Worf

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I think I read it on Lifehacker or somewhere similar, but has anyone tried to go the put-own-personal-medical-info-on-my-laptop-and-invoke-HIPAA method?

My work laptop doubles as work and personal use and I've got sensitive patient info, and the idea that the TSA agents think they actually have a right to any of that data is scary, especially since i'm pretty sure the jackass at the airport is not a "covered entity" according to the law and it'd probably hold me liable for 'exposing it'.

Rigo

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]>

Hey - brilliant idea? Put Ubuntu on a USB key and tell them that your laptop has a securty and needs to be started with the key - then it loads and empty linux and keeps your windows safe. Or you could just boot off a linux CD. Act cooperative and start it up for them and then hand it over - they'll just look through and see nothing useful and hand it back. Right?

[www.escapade.co.uk]

<--- now that this image is in your browser history, you're screwed. muahahahaha.

Soulxside

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @whiteknight: "Stuff like this makes me ashamed to say that I am a citizen and pay taxes in the US. For all that we do right, we have some pretty sickening faults. This is stupendous. I am sick."

Grow up.

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Yeah you can encrypt the files and not give them the password, but they don't have to give the laptop back either. There's plenty of examples of that happening. They aren't just going to give it back with it locked down and accept they can't see what's in it.

The absurd thing is border agents don't wouldn't even be able to spot something except porn. If someone wanted to take illegal data into the country they would Fedex overnight a flash drive hidden in something mundane.
Customs doesn't even scrutinize air shipments, but they do reject ground shipments if the paperwork going into Canada isn't all there. Anyone doing illegal things like files would just upload them or anything else where they wouldn't be there to get busted personally if it was checked.

Hello_Newman

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Oh wow, yo TSA dude, check this porno out man. Way illegal. I probably should delete pics of me smoking..tho.

smeee

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @dichron: Or, you could just create the dummy account and have it Auto-login (I assume you can do this in windows). So all customs can see is the dummy account. They won't even have an idea that there is a completely other account on that computer. Yet another reason why shit like this just doesn't work. It can be foiled with 5 minutes of work.

mmr

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> hmm...just wait till another country, say China, starts doing this to American businessmen or even government employees travelling with secret computers over international employees. hmm. bad precedent...BAD PRECEDENT.

zendredi101

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Comeon peoplez how smart do you think the agents are? if you are still running xp put all of your information into an encrypted file on the administrator account which only shows up in safe mode and password that account, as for the normal boot just create a normal account that you use for "unsensitive" material, and violla they are none the wiser, dont even let them know about the second account (admin) and they will think you are clean!! Deception is the key to success! Gotta love big brother!!

mp111285

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Well, i keep anything that I wouldn't want them to see in a 30gb truecrypt file. And Truecrypt has no launcher.

I should move it to /etc or something for better protection.

No way in hell they get that password. And not the data unless they can break AES.

As for everything else... I don't really care if they look at my bio presentation.

oh, and all your data are belong to TSA.

Daniel

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @anonymousryan: That is an interesting point. I wonder if that is true.

This is all very disturbing.

Brian Sexton

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I only bring along my OLPC. Lets see them get my info....

"how do you open this thing...."

mesamunefire

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> it seems easy enough to create a decoy user account in windows (using your real name) and change the name of your actual account to something like a signifcant other's (provided they aren't traveling with you). then when they want to search, you say you only have the pw to the decoy account, on which they'll find nothing.

dichron

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> 30 years ago my friends called me paranoid. I have seen the errors of my ways. I have learned to love Big Brother.

dfwguy

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @Tayng:

I think having a laptop that didn't "work" would only anger them and make them steal... er, remove it from your possession for safety reasons. You could have taken out the guts of the laptop and replaced them with a BOMB.

The Sword Master

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I am really, truly (not sarcastically) surprised that it was the 9th which ruled that way.

costanza007

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Centralized authority with too much power? Check.

Will of citizens to disassemble an unreasonable and oppressive regime? No check.

liveinvt

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Stuff like this makes me ashamed to say that I am a citizen and pay taxes in the US. For all that we do right, we have some pretty sickening faults. This is stupendous. I am sick.

whiteknight

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I just rename the file extentions of sensitive docs and hide them in obscure places. Like rename a .ppt to a .dll and insert into the Windows/System file. Good luck finding that one.

N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> The question not asked here is how are they going about "searching" your laptop? Are they just looking through your "Documents" or "My Documents" folders? Are they using some kind of automated search function? I can't imagine what you would be able to find on anyone's computer in short order.

I have trouble finding the files I want, how can a border agent be able to figure out what to look for?

Another question, are they copying any files for later searching?

As for you that suggest storing files in a separate server, haven't you ever wondered if the government isn't already able to search through say .mac's (or any other) storage databases?

Castle1914

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @Fierock: Let me put it this way. We've all talked again and again in here about the way these things happen incrementally. By the time your hypothetical happens, there is not going to be unanimity as to how obviously ridiculous and intrusive it is.

I would hope the decision would ultimately come out the "correct" way. But there will be a fight about it to be sure.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Well I used to keep some pretty nasty virus on a protected directory on my laptop as a "honeypot" for security conferences.

Wouldn't it be awesome if they infected a customs agent PC with them?

LOL!

axiomatic

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> easy, just have shell login with a separate user for the feds and a few hidden encrypted partitions for your own files. i.e. make the fools think they have access to your system.

citizen024

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Are we absolutely sure that the court ruling (very odd for the 9th circus) also allowed searching the data?

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> thats why i hid my porno on my sys32 folder.

YoMommaIsMyMomma

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> "Let's see here . . ."

CTRL F

*al Qaider*

Enter

BasicBlack

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Just store your porn in your own webspace. Problem solved!

Sleeper_Service

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> ok so if i dont give them the password they take it wtf? ok so if i do give them the password and they find my pronzz what then?

GundamSLR

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @Pixelantes Anonymous:

""Doesn't mean I have to give them my OS X login password"

Actually, you do. While searching the laptops, that's EXACTLY what they are asking from people. And the reports I've read about this issue are saying they don't take no for an answer. They will detain you until you do. "

Good to know, as I have so international travel comming up. Since my Laptop is dual-boot rigged with Linux and windows I suppose I'll just remove the boot loader entry for Windows and unmount the windows system partition and the data partition in Linux. Since I only use the linux install to study well...linux, anything but a pretty determined examination by a fairly knowledgable agent should keep all my personal (not to mention totally benign) data safe from prying eyes.

Sigh...I love dual-booting.

Of course, if they discover my chicanery I'll look suspicious/guilty as hell and likely be up $h!t creek...

OddManOut

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> One more step to police state. Keep on walkin

lemz

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @brutek: Yes, you can argue that, but that would be grounds for the border agent to exercise his authority to confiscate your laptop and you would probably never see it again.

FritzLaurel

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @rexplex: Except Bush isn't a Republican. He's so far right he came back to the left and wants everyone to conform!

@all who refuse to give pwds: there have already been cases where people who refuse to give passwords have had their laptops confiscated.

Looks to me like the best solution is to hide your sensitive data on a server somewhere and access it when you get to your destination. Don't carry it with you through customs.

FritzLaurel

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> how about just making sure that the battery is "dead". I would like them to try and search thru a dead laptop.

fuzzylollipop

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @Hanke: Ah, well they took my machine away and inspected it. Your airport security team is smarter than DCA's i guess.

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I would just tell em i forgot the password the the encrypted partition.

if you have illegal shit on there you can plead the 5th, you don't have to supply any information that may incriminate you. if giving your password may do so, you have the right to withhold that info (although they'll seize you laptop and try to crack it no doubt.)

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> There's actually a big court decision pending on the use of encryption for computers that come across the border. Check this out:

[www.washingtonpost.com]

dufus

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I say, bring your laptops with you and don't give them anything. Keep it passworded or encrypted. Fight the power! Say no to Big Brother!

On a more serious note, this is a stupid idea.

Rabid Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Can anybody answer this?:

When a border agent sees that all of my data is encrypted, can I agrue I cannot decrypt it because bringing the encryption/decryption algorithm across borders is illegal?

brutek

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Does that mean you can get nicked for having an image of a movie or a hot copy of office 2008 on your hard drive?

Tex1961

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @luciusad2004: "And what about my various flash drives. Are they going to set up computers so they can go through all the data on those to? Better Fuckin NOt!"

Yes, they will get searched, too. It's awesome!

Pixelantes Anonymous

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @92BuickLeSabre: So then the next philosphical question would be: say someone invents a brain scanner that reads your thoughts - would border agents then be allowed to use it?

I'm thinking along the lines of anonymousryan, do they have the right to search for information the same as if it were contraband? Obviously a physical briefcase can contain prohibited items - but exactly what information is prohibited, since the signs and fine print stating what is not permitted doesn't list these.

Fierock

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @TheSonOfKrypton: "Doesn't mean I have to give them my OS X login password"

Actually, you do. While searching the laptops, that's EXACTLY what they are asking from people. And the reports I've read about this issue are saying they don't take no for an answer. They will detain you until you do.

Pixelantes Anonymous

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Pack your battery in a seperate bag, IE: carry on the battry, and check the laptop.

Tayng

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> You could encrypt and not give them the PW, and then, at the least, they take your laptop, which they have done, and at the worst, they lock you up or don't let you cross whatever border you are trying to cross. It has been happening all over the world and is a big concern related especially to nations that would take your business laptop for "analysis" and then pass along corporate intellectual capital to businesses in their countries (China, perhaps?) The NY Times has an old article about it, but I have read some more recent articles about people getting laptops confiscated for analysis in various countries and then getting it back weeks, months, years later..... Bottom line, if you have to take a laptop, buy a cheapo with nothing on it, or buy a second hard drive and have set it up as a clean drive to take internationally.

[www.nytimes.com]

lifetraveler

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @lithivm: Just try not to give them a key when they ask for it. They will make your life hell, even though you're within your rights. They'll hold you, make you miss your flight, frisk you, potentially put you on the no fly list, etc. all to intimidate you into doing whatever they want.

ARP

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I can see how easy this'll be if something like my dad goes through. His documents folder is about 3GB in size. DOCUMENTS.

William Hook

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @anonymousryan: My laptop has an easily-removed HDD. I'll just remove it. Not like I'm using it at the moment they're checking it.

Hanke

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @Joseph: When I last had to bring my laptop through security, they actually told me NOT to turn it on. Their (quite sound) reasoning is that if it IS a buh, that just might be the way to make it blow.

Bonus points if you don't see a typo.

Hanke

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Better hope your old Mac laptops don't have a system error when they boot it up.

CaseyG

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I guess what's surprising is if you use the briefcase analogy, you'd understand if border agents wanted to search your briefcase for contraband but if they wanted to actually read your papers you'd be a bit violated. In a laptop all they can do is read your files, so it feels like a violation.

However, I seriously doubt it's going to be a major problem for most of us- but the fact that they can do it is irksome.

anonymousryan

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Encryption is just an invitation for them to seize your laptop. According to
this NY Times article from 2006, one woman was waiting a year for border agents to return her laptop and still hadn't seen it.

charmac

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @wheatieboy: Sure. I understand the point.

The problem is that I think the memory analogy is less valid. It's not your memory. Unless you're part of some "record your life" experiment, it's not even close. It's your personal effects and work product. If anything what one actually has stored on their laptop is closer to what one packs in their luggage. These are the documents and files that you need immediate access to while on the road. It's not the company's server just as it's not the full physical file system at the office.

The "size of the briefcase" is a technological difference, but I'm not sure it is a substantive difference.

Trust me, I'd rather agree with you on this than disagree.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @wheatieboy:

A gentle request. Please don't delete the "quote" code. We like to see the post you're responding to.

BasicBlack

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> When I went to Whistler, BC they checked my lappy. Opened it up, powered it on made sure it was really a computer and not a bomb. After about 2-3 minutes he gave it back. I guess if it was a Windows box, it would have taken 15-20 minutes to account for boot up and shut down times.

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> This type of story was on the NY Times, you dont have to give them loggin information because thats like self incrimination. I too use double encryption so there's no way I handing my key... (I dont have ilegal stuff but I just like snooping agents).

Using encrytion on USb drives is great especially on home servers because if they are unplugged the volume dismounts so unless you know the keys...or have a can off dust off and work for MIT you're kinda safe.

lithivm

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @92BuickLeSabre

Except that your briefcase is seriously limited by size.

The argument against searching a laptop is that with immense storage capabilities, we are essentially using computers as extensions of our own memory.

I was listening to a Canadian Lawyer on the CBC discussing this the other day. His firm has mandated that all data files are stored on an external servers and that laptops are to be software only. That way, if they are searched, there's nothing to find.

wheatieboy

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Apparently it's not a quote from Ben Franklin, but it's still true, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
[en.wikiquote.org]

>dfwguy: I always thought that Republicans were all about balanced budgets, small governments and personal freedom. I guess Bush taught me better.


rexplex

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Hasn't everyone TrueCrypt'd their entire system volume by now?

vmspionage

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> I don't know what all the fuss is about. I enjoy having my gadgets frisked.

BasicBlack

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> "There is no "right" to cross the border"

The UN charter on human rights begs to differ.

bobbydanforth

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> When will people realize that all bets are off at the border? There is no "right" to cross the border. It is and always has been at the will of Customs agents.

@xint - so your files aren't "real things"? My files are.

regexp

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @92BuickLeSabre: More precisely, I actually do agree with the logic, but I don't agree with the outcome.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> This is lame. I seriously want to know what happens when an agent turns on someones laptop, asks for the password and the person denies their request. WTF are they going to do. Absolute bullshit.

And honestly do they think terrorists are stupid enough to create a folder on their desktop "Pl4nS_T0_B0mB_W4$hing70n_lol"

And what about my various flash drives. Are they going to set up computers so they can go through all the data on those to? Better Fuckin NOt!

luciusad2004

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @DucatiGuy: Or do that.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @xint: I don't agree with the logic, but it really is based on the actual analog analogue: a briefcase.

A briefcase has files, each file will have pictures or documents in it. By voluntarily choosing to fly on a plane you have agreed to let folks flip through these physical files.

A laptop is nothing more than a digitized version of the physical briefcase.

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> What if you have a picture of a bomb.... Could you be charged with terrorism? It's just like if it were in my luggage then right? Is that not what they are saying?

blindaxs

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @tamoko: Really? I guess I've been lucky, because I've been traveling to Montreal twice a month for the passed 2 1/2 years straight.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @TheSonOfKrypton:
I am afraid they already have you there. They can sieze your laptop on the grounds that you were "exporting" encryption technology.

Can someone explain to me how the Republicans have reduced spending, made me safer, helped the economy, and reduced the amount of goverment interference in my personal life?

Free Markets are anything but.


dfwguy

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> @xint: The agents can has your data, is why.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Ooops!!! Better change my wallpaper.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt that's your flavor or paranoia.

@Kaiser-Machead: I think they do it occasionally, just because they can.

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> " ...laptops are like any other container..."

This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my entire life.

A laptop holds files. So...
How is that like any other container?
You mean, like a luggage?
How is a laptop like a luggage?

It's digital files... and in a luggage you have real things.

So like you can carry files in a laptop and you carry things in a luggage? Is that what they mean?

So...because of that association there is a law that allows these people to go through your laptop for what ever reason they make up.

Can someone explain this to me like I'm a 6 year old, please?

xint

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Just load up a huge hairy cock n balls background and pray the agent opening is not gay...

DucatiGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Also, I don't understand what the point of searching through a laptop. Can't it simply be sniffed for explosives like everything else? What am I going to do with malicious code? Hijack the plane and fly it by remote?

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Now I can't smuggle all that Brazilian porn anymore.

:-/

But seriously, Each Month we are giving up liberties for some invisible boogie-men that iare out to take our jobs and blow up our buildings while doing our jobs.

I feel stuck in the middle about this.

Kraftwerker

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> If my laptop has a VPN connection to my home server, does that mean they can search that too?

Any search of private property without probable cause rubs me the wrong way. Yes, I know I'm on the wrong planet if that's the case.

Killjoy

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> It's a good thing Canadian customs agents don't give a shit about searching through your computer, yet. They're not gonna find much anyway, since I can hide everything on .Mac and my external drives at home, and no one's the wiser :P

Some people leave their file setups in huge messes though. A lot of files I've seen were folders within folders with stupid names in a convoluted mess that's hard to discern between something important and something shitty, which is actually a great way to hide porno. Will agents actually bother to sift through ridiculously complicated file folders in search of random naughty stuff?

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Border Agents Can Frisk Your Laptop and Gadgets Without Cause]]> Whatever....They can do what they want....Doesn't mean I have to give them my OS X login password and even if it does, I sure as hell don't have to give them my Truecrypt password...

TheSonOfKrypton

]]>