Sonic Wallpaper
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U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 9:03 AM
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Well this doesn't look good at all - a bunch of unregulated searching and backing up of your data - what happens to your data? Who knows!
If you fly and compute and are crossing borders - you may want to use an online storage service to keep you data online. It's not safe to travel in/out of the US with your data any longer. 
read whole article here
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Is a laptop searchable in the same way as a piece of luggage? The Department of Homeland Security believes it is.
For the past 18 months, immigration officials at border entries have been searching and seizing some citizens’ laptops, cellphones, and BlackBerry devices when they return from international trips.
In some cases, the officers go through the files while the traveler is standing there. In others, they take the device for several hours and download the hard drive’s content. After that, it’s unclear what happens to the data.
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A Bit Crusher
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM
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Sad, really.... 
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Kylo
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Friday, July 11, 2008 at 2:05 PM
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I keep talking to a Russian limo driver at my work that used to be a private investigator. He keeps telling me that he has seen this sort of activity with governments before and it leads to revolutions.
Q. What is a governments biggest problem?
A. People.
What does a government do when it has too many people to regulate? Finds other ways to control everyone.
All about money. He says America is fake freedom; it certainly strikes me as a viable hypothesis the more I hear about the world.
"Energizer bunny arrested- charged with battery."
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~ Absurdist Lover ~
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 6:05 AM
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Whatever happened to personal privacy?
With all of the advances Amerika have made against privacy since the 'war on terror' began, it's easy to see why some speculate that 9/11 was an inside job (not that I have any opinion one way or the other).
I will teach you the significance of insignificance
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just john
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 8:36 AM
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~ Absurdist Lover ~ wrote:Whatever happened to personal privacy?
That's for me to know and for you to find out.
Anyway, I'm waiting for the first reported instance of somebody getting a malware infection from one of these laptop searches.
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Sonic Wallpaper
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 8:46 AM
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or... we hear about data/documents that is pulled from the laptops, and spreads around the Web. I wonder how secure is the data storage locations where they put all the data they pull from the drives? Seems to me, each persons data would need to be encrypted and isolated. Can you imagine if they pull a nasty virus down and upload it to their own systems?
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just john
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM
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Of course, every time I hear about this sort of thing, I consider doing a software version of that card with "HOW DO YOU KEEP A MORON BUSY? (see reverse)" printed on both sides.
It'd be fun to make some software that looks like a heavily encrypted package of who-knows-what. When you poke at it, it throws out a few intriguing strings of text, and eventually acts as if you've cracked the next level of encryption. But then it gives hints that there are deeper levels of access ...
Repeat until user's head explodes.
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Subtronik
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 12:58 PM
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I like that JJ. Please let us have the source code once you've finished it ok thanks.
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(((stereofect)))
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM
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I know it's not for everyone but... TrueCrypt works and is very secure.
Otherwise... make sure you have a image file of your hard drive before you head out (external hard-drives are soooo cheap these days). You never know what will happen, or who will snoop into your laptop while you travel.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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just john
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 9:28 AM
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Easier than coding what I describe above would be to create a multiple-gigabyte file of random crap and name it Dick.Cheney.plan.dbz.
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Tecknixia
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 1:45 AM
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Just found this on YouTube. A 7 yr old boy on terrorist watch list can't fly in airplanes, because his name is same or similar to a suspect.
Btw, I don't watch TV, so if this is old news, my bad.
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Sonic Wallpaper
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 2:26 PM
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wow... that is something. unbelievable! 
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Brainbelly
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM
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New search device.
See through car search at border
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination, but crossing the road with your eyes closed is easy" -John Lennon - “What relates to reality, is not certain; and what is certain, is not real.” --Albert Einstein
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Kylo
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RE: U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 1:52 AM
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"Here kid, play with these teddies and tell them you like to draw... make sure the carbon laser stays in the frog til you board the plane."
"I bet you all would like to think I actually like Walt Disney don'cha know!" 
"Energizer bunny arrested- charged with battery."
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