U.S. border laptop searches approved

[orygunmike]

The .S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just made your visit the the airport potentially more invasive.

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http://www.fiercecio.com/story/u.s.-border-laptop-searches-approved/2008-04-24

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A federal appeals court has made it easier for customs officials to search through the contents of a person's laptop. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection division do not need reasonable suspicion to examine information contained on the laptop of any individual crossing the U.S. border.

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[tmajors]

Two things.

1) This is customs and border agents searching people's laptop computers entering the US, not for regular people at regular in country flights.

2) How is this gun related?

 

[Chipperman]

Suppose you have a nice gun pic as your computer background. You are coming back from a business trip in (insert country here).

How many hours of questioning do you think will be required before they "let you go".


Fourth Amendment? We don't need no steenkin' Fourth Amendment!

 

[disneyd]

Here's the fix for that...

http://www.truecrypt.org/

 

[bogie]

I'm guessing that most of the "searches" will involve people returning from trips to the Czech Republic (or whatever it is called...), Thailand, etc., etc...

Not Gun Related.