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Your Laptop Is Subject to Seizure at Airports
Another scary erosion of American's Civil Rights brought to you by our paranoid Government. You can bet your bottom dollar that I will be encrypting my hard drive prior to leaving on any vacations. I have nothing to hide so if they want my information bad enough, they will have to work for it. Our personal property is no longer ours. Laptops, cell phones, iPods, digital cameras etc can all be confiscated and analyzed. Just another typical sad day here in our floundering country. I can only hope our kids will have some remnants of civil rights left when they are our age. Though at the rate our Government is going, Civil Rights will one day be a thing of the past.
Labels: America, Civil Rights, Government, Morons, Paranoid, Spying
posted by SnotSucker at
11:00 AM
1 Comments:
This stuff is like gun control laws... they only inconvenience the not guilty. Those having stuff worthy of hiding will take the easy and more secure routes to get that information where it needs to be. After all, it is all about information seizure since no concrete objects can be stored on a hard drive. Every citizen should use PGO or GPG to encrypt their drives, Macs have it built in (FileVault - not PGP but easy transparent encryption) as well as all emails. Eventually ALL internet traffic should be encrypted and has been a glaring oversight since the InterTubials were invented by Gore in 96.
If Gmail offered easy encryption, and it must be easy enough for my mom to use if the world will accept it, then I think we would all be more secure in our communications and dumb stuff like this would be even more moot.
Child Pr0n is terrible and I don't protect those that create it, but are airports the places to justify collaring pervs with it on their lappies? I don't think so. Why should CP be an issue at an airport, it is not a national security issue. Airports should focus on secure, safe, COMFORTABLE travel, and stay out of legal issues.
What else could they care about in regards to a personal computer??
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Dorman, at Mon Aug 04, 02:17:00 PM EDT
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