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Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border
suitablegirl writes "As we have discussed, Customs and Border Patrol is allowed to seize and download data from laptops or electronic devices of Americans returning from abroad. At a Senate hearing tomorrow, privacy advocates and industry groups will urge the lawmakers to take action to protect the data and privacy of Americans not guilty of anything besides wanting to go home."
What about putting goatse.cx as a background picture, including for the login page. ... or just burn it.
They might return the laptop to you right away
Haven't you figured out you're not welcome yet?
This only punishes people who are not technically savvy enough to encrypt their documents or store them in a USB key drive.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
I'd, personally, be against any protections granted to filthy foreigners trying to enter our country. Showers should be required.
Especially for Canadians.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
USB keys are also available in rather easily concealable form factors. such as the 4Gb, smaller than a stick of gum, usb key I have in my hand. which I could easily conceal even if I were naked.
MentalImage.Erase()
Just to clarify that conjugation there:
Noun: Terrorist.
Adjective: Terroristish.
Adverb: Terroristically.
Other: Terroristificationism.
I hate printers.
Hey, whatever turns you on.
I hate printers.
Sir! Sir! Somebody copied a song on their computer to someone else's computer!
ZOMFG! Quick, make some legislation that pisses on civil rights and prosecute the shit out of anyone copying files! Get Bill on the phone and have him write a load of restrictive crap into everybody's operating system. Copying Files Must Be Stopped!!
Sir! Sir! Somebody took a computer with them when they left the country for a couple of hours!
ZOMFG! Copy all his files! Distribute copies to all the many security agencies!
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
I will set an (RI|MP)AA on them for illegal downloading of copyrighted materials from my harddrive :D
Umm... could it be that some dimwit in some agency mistook tourism for terrorism? I mean, they do sound similar...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Oh thanks, you just gave them reason to cavity search all geeks.
I'd give quite a lot to see the guard who tries to search Richard Stallman. The man is famous for not bathing, and you could probably hide an OLPC laptop in that beard.
I always thought a terrorist was someone that discriminated against people that are terrors.
"Paaaaaass the Dutchie to de left han' side!"
Apologies, but it seemed apt.
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Your prenineeleventhink is simply appalling, citizen.
On the contrary, the one thing that keeps me coming back is the friendly, smiling faces of Customs and Border Patrol.
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
This is not new. It predates The War on [noun/adjective/adverb/other]
End of discussion.
The issue here is not whether they can inspect your documents, but whether they can keep a copy of your electronic files.
I think you misunderstand what "End of discussion." means.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Encrypted information hidden in the shape of antlers?
Excellent idea - especially for those damn Scandinavian terrorists bringing their Lapp tops complete with reindeer antlers into the country :o)
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
Talk about downward spiral.
Don't be crazy anymore!
Goatse modded insightful? Isn't this one of the seven signs of the coming apocalypse?
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
You can't take the sky from me...
And I have copyright protected files on it, are they guilty of copyright infringement?
It's summer. They've migrated south.