Feds can detain laptops at border

This isn't news to me . I've heard of it going on for quite a while .

 

Most drivers use the computer for not only personal stuff while on the road but for their logs.

 

Wow... I wonder if they feel dirty at the end of looking through some of those PCs. LOL

 

Whole Disk Encryption. Never give up your password.

 

That's it. It's war they want? Then war they shall have.

Invest in an off-site location. Write the entire contents of your hard drive to it and then reformat your entire computer.

Meanwhile, I really need to see about getting myself a shotgun.

 

"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

V For Vendetta.

How did the Fourth Amendment, or for that matter ALL the Bill of Rights, get so thoroughly trampled on with the perpetrators getting away with it?

 

9/11

It's been used as an excuse for just about everything the government wants to do lately. All in the interest of making sure we're "safe"...

 

when the goverment no longer fears the poeple this is what happens

 

US border cops empowered to seize laptops, cell phones
08/05/2008