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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."
Well there goes my plans to smuggle porn into Australia and use it in a terrorist attack.
Well, I hope the guards are really desensitized because once they search my laptop they will most likely vomit.
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Who knows, but if you thought the lines were long now... On most geek laptops, this could take a while.
Is porn illegal in Australia now?
Nope. FTFA:
Patten said if the question was designed to stop child pornography being smuggled into the country then the question should have been asked about "child pornography", without encompassing regular porn.
Because you totally need to bring a hard drive into the country to bring along CP, you can't use those newfangled technologies like encrypted network connections and proxies to get around it.
What a giant circle jerk of pretending they are helping the victims.
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What if my laptop is encrypted because of PCI compliance? What if it is against the law in my country for me to compromise confidential information, but now Australia demands to see it? Does this mean American businessmen can't travel ao Australia with company laptops?
Or will Australia not search encrypted laptops?
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With the new filter, they need to get their porn somehow. This was the best option.
Or just use TrueCryp and create a hidden partition.
mov ax, 4c00h
int 21h
Anime and manga should be legal. They're cartoons; Fictional representations of a fabricated encounter, often between entities which do not even exist outside of a person's imagination.
Or do you think there really are impossibly proportioned cartoon people in the real world, with emotions other than those that the artist has attributed to them at the exact time being pictured? Do they have a family history? Are they going to grow up in later life and abuse other cartoon people?
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a gun is dangerous
A gun is no more dangerous than a motor vehicle, but that's rather beside the point that I was trying to make. If you visit a foreign country you have to abide by the laws of that jurisdiction. I don't happen to agree with Saudi Arabia's laws regarding women but I wouldn't suggest that my sister fly there and try to rent a car as an act of civil disobedience.....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
A gun is no more dangerous than a motor vehicle
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..
Fact is, a gun's primary (and arguably only real) function is to shoot (at) people, a motor vehicle's primary function isnt running people over..
People, what a bunch of bastards
Given all the weird ass'd rules and laws coming out from the Land Down Under, I am not sure we can still keep them in the Westernized Culture Club. Shit, at times I think the USA is aiming to get kicked out as well.
go fuck yourself, but don't film it
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
So they don't have child porn but by that point nobody likes them and you can send them to jail for having the image from a popup in their temporary internet files.
fantasic!
you know what would be easier?
if we just did away with these court things. they're really just a hassel anyway.
So if I view pirated movies then I am assisting the market and encouraging the creation of more movies? Funny, the MPAA has been saying the exact opposite for years.
But more to the point, if someone downloads CP from usenet (or similar service) and thus there is no indication to the producer/creator that it was being consumed, how is that encouraging more creation of the product?
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 ;