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Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn
bluetoad writes "Australian customs officers have been given the power to search incoming travelers' laptops and mobile phones for porn. Passengers must declare whether they are carrying pornography on their Incoming Passenger Card. The Australian government is also planning to implement an Internet filter. Once these powers are in places, who knows how they will be used."
You try casually walking into a bank with a ford mustang concealed on your person before donning a clown mask and sticking the place up..
The actions of a few bad apples does not make the device itself dangerous. I could rob that bank with a knife or baseball bat if I was so inclined. Do you regard those items as dangerous?
Fact is, a gun's primary (and arguably only real) function is to shoot (at) people
I guess you've never heard of the shooting sports or hunting?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
You should never do shit like: "tar -czvf archive.tgz ~/porndir;rm -rf ~/porndir". If the tar command fails (out of space, no permission and so on) you will lose your entire porn collection! Use && instead of ;