Puddin Taine
02-08-2008, 08:30 PM
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border.
A pair of DHS policies from last month say that customs agents can routinely--as a matter of course--seize, make copies of, and "analyze the information transported by any individual attempting to enter, re-enter, depart, pass through, or reside in the United States." (See policy No. 1 (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and No. 2 (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).)
DHS claims the border search of electronic information is useful to detect terrorists, drug smugglers, and people violating "copyright or trademark laws." (Readers: Are you sure your iPod and laptop have absolutely no illicitly downloaded songs? You might be guilty of a felony (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).)
This is a disturbing new policy, and should convince anyone taking a laptop across a border to use encryption to thwart DHS snoops. Encrypt your laptop, with full disk encryption if possible, and power it down (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) before you go through customs.
Here's a guide to customs-proofing your laptop (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) that we published in March.
This is becoming bullshit.. What say you?
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border.
A pair of DHS policies from last month say that customs agents can routinely--as a matter of course--seize, make copies of, and "analyze the information transported by any individual attempting to enter, re-enter, depart, pass through, or reside in the United States." (See policy No. 1 (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and No. 2 (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).)
DHS claims the border search of electronic information is useful to detect terrorists, drug smugglers, and people violating "copyright or trademark laws." (Readers: Are you sure your iPod and laptop have absolutely no illicitly downloaded songs? You might be guilty of a felony (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.).)
This is a disturbing new policy, and should convince anyone taking a laptop across a border to use encryption to thwart DHS snoops. Encrypt your laptop, with full disk encryption if possible, and power it down (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) before you go through customs.
Here's a guide to customs-proofing your laptop (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) that we published in March.
This is becoming bullshit.. What say you?