- FBI and Congress want all online activity monitored by ISP for two years.
- Apple buying a processor company. Why?
- GTA4 reviewed on Cranky Geeks.
- PETA offering a million dollars for test tube meat.
- Dell building a bookshelf computer.
- Acer sees 5-7 million netbooks.
- Now they can stop you at the border and look inside your laptop files when you enter country.
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Velcome to the USSR, er, USA!
USA = United Soviet America
whou would knew LOL
Kinda tough to view them when they are encrypted! LOL
If they are encrypted then you simply get arrested and waterboarded until you give them the key.
Bootlocker?
For many people, lots of confidential data – business related.
In large companies the administrator password is unknown to the employee. Removing the admin password can get an employee fired.
Once, entering the US by plane, I was asked just to boot up the computer, to make sure it really was what it was.
I don’t think they’ll inspect all laptops – but I seriously doubt they will have the IT knowledge to inspect an NTFS partition.
Next time I cross the border I’ll have my pocketpc full of ugliest old gays porn I can find on the web ready for US Customs officers 😉
#6
Be very careful which port of entry you choose for that stunt. Interpretation of what is obscene is left to the local areas to determine based upon community standards.
#7
How about famous “goatse” as wallpaper?
I can always claim it is my own ass when I was sick 😉 and i keep it on my personal pocketpc as a reminder wallpaper (which isn’t public obviously)?
goatse.cx is dead, but long live the web 😉
For those who don’t know: goatse.cx was perhaps the ugliest picture ever posted on the web.
It is an insight of ugly anus.
DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW IF YOU ARE EVEN EASILY DISGUSTED!
http://www.goatse.cz/
LOL, he goatsed the thread.
What ever you do don’t lemon party, tubgirl, or meatspin.
Apologies for “goatsing the thread” (LOL!) it wasn’t intentional 🙂
Tubgirl was better than goatse. I’ll be she was home schooled.
Every day it seems like a little bit more of the basic freedoms we enjoy are being eaten up by paranoid security excuses and I’m beginning to get the feeling that the terrorist a*holes won a battle in a ridiculously costly war for both them (the a*holes terrorists) and us (the peace-loving free people. I equiate the a*holes terrorists with some sort of adolph hitler approach to things in many ways and the paranoid security excuses have no freaking idea what they’re doing.
#13
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.”
Justice William O. Douglas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_O._Douglas
Store files on internet instead of laptop, problem solved.
One solution is to travel with a dummy drive with WinME that loads and plays this flash file on boot up:
http://www.bushflash.com/swf/idiot.swf
#16 Encryption is your friend. 😉
I got busted at Vancouver airport for not listing my laptop as a “business tool” on the form. I showed the guy my ballpoint pen and asked,
“Is this a business tool, too?”
Snarky, but he just laughed it off and waved me through…so much for NAFTA.
Like John, I’M SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS EVERYWHERE!!! AGH!!