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FISA and Border Searches of Laptops
With the recent attention to the DHS's draconian policy on laptop searches at borders, a blog post by Steven Bellovin from last month is worth wider discussion. Bellovin extrapolates from the DHS border policy on physical electronic devices and asks why authorities wouldn't push to extend it to electronic data transfers. "...it would seem to make little difference if the information is 'imported' into the US via a physical laptop or via a VPN, or for that matter by a Web connection. The right to search a laptop for information, then, is equivalent to the right to tap any and all international connections, without a warrant or probable cause. (More precisely, one always has a constitutional protection against 'unreasonable' search and seizure; the issue is what the definition of 'unreasonable' is.)"
Purely a guess: getting nailed to a log just for suggesting that people should try to be a little bit nicer to each other.
Oh yeah, and claiming to be the bastard child of a peasant woman and the supreme deity of a large chunk of the population.
as already discussed, Sweden is way ahead of you
How is this "insightful" it's just more political bashing of pro republican people. It's closer to inciting than anything.
Don't blame me for redundant posts. I can't type very fast. Hence the user ID.