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• spendogg

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/2303…

  Feb 7, 08, 2:19 p.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  "It's one thing to say it's reasonable for government agents to open your luggage," said David D. Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University. "It's another thing to say it's reasonable for them to read your mind and everything you have thought over the last year. What a laptop records is as personal as a diary but much more extensive. It records every Web site you have searched. Every e-mail you have sent. It's as if you're crossing the border with your home in your suitcase."

  • totally agree. as an aside, i actually know Mr. Cole. good man indeed.– madirish1/2

    :)– Jaline2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:22 p.m. – Permalink

• menos

  yep but it's happening more frequently! including cehcks to see if you have pirated material (mp3 etc etc)

  • oh snap...– Jaline1/4

    How can they check that?
    
    – zod2/4

    Well, if you go through unaltered music tags and stuff, you could. But I doubt they have time for that?– Jaline3/4

    "Your kid can be arrested because they can't prove the songs they downloaded to their iPod were legally downloaded,"– menos4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:22 p.m. – Permalink

• kona

  that is why meatspin.com (do not go there) is the default wallpaper and loading screen when i travel.

  "sir, can you please turn on your computer and log in for me?"
  sure..... (after it turns on, me pointing to the airport security guard) DUDE... WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT MAN PORN ON MY COMPUTER!

  works like a charm.

  • hahaha– Jaline1/2

    holy crap i just opened that– instrmntl2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• sikma

  *scratches head - what do they expect to find?

  • mp3's?– sikma1/4

    mp3s, terrorsm clues, child pornography, qbn threads, whatever they feel like at that moment– menos2/4

    so I should load mine up with gay porn featuring border agents before my next trip to europe?– flashbender3/4

    tom cruise scientology videos– spendogg4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:23 p.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  that is so fucking ridiculous. I am so sick of of "security" and "protection" being used as an excuse for federal agents to do whatever they feel like.

  "The U.S. government has argued in a pending court case that its authority to protect the country's border extends to looking at information stored in electronic devices such as a laptop without any suspicion of a crime"

  • i would imagine phones too. i worry about taking my smartphone and having them go through it like a pack of wild dogs.– kona1/2

    (insert noun here)– kona2/2

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:25 p.m. – Permalink

• mrdobolina

  "nothing to worry about if you haventdone anything wrong"

  Quote from many morons around this place...

  • the problem is that you never know when using comic sans will become a federal offense.– spendogg1/3

    haha! OR NOT using comic sans becomes a federal offense.– flashbender2/3

    papyrus!!!!– mrdobolina3/3

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:28 p.m. – Permalink

• sikma

  if i were a "terrorist" i would never bring anything illegal/incriminating over any border on a laptop. thats what ftp'ing is for......

  seems like common sense

  • Thanks for the tip.– 404

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:28 p.m. – Permalink

• kona

  i mean really though, there is nothing to worry about if you havent done anything wrong.

  • damn. i gotta work on my timing.– kona1/5

    ahahaha– Jaline2/5

    spoken like a true moron.– mrdobolina3/5

    of course. i have a reputation to live up to. i wasn't captain of my high school wrastlin team for nuthin ya know.– kona4/5

    you have said it in the past though, that is why it is funny.– mrdobolina5/5

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:29 p.m. – Permalink

• Jaline

  This is more serious...

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:30 p.m. – Permalink

• tank02

  creepy...

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:32 p.m. – Permalink

• PonyBoy

  When I was 18 and traveling from NY state across the Canadian border w/my buddy (who was only 22) we not only got stopped and questioned as to what were doing... the pricks literally tore his car apart. Seats removed... wheels removed and searched... all our luggage / cds (hundreds of discs in sleeves) / belongings were completely opened/emptied out into boxes...

  ... it was like that scene in 'The Six Pack' (with Kenny Rogers!!) where the kids strip Kenny's car down at the beginning...

  ... they didn't bother with me as much as my buddy Jay... they asked some of the WEIRDEST questions - one of them:

  "What was the name of your Kindergarten Teacher?"

  I guess they thought we were running drugs into Canada or something (hahaha)...

  4+ hours he was questioned while I sat locked in a room by myself.

  They left the tools outside so we could put the tires back on the car... we had to of course pack everything back up again too...

  ... absolutely ridiculous.

  • damn... you saw six pack with kenny rogers! i love that movie!– kona1/4

    uh, and it sucks that happened to you guys. :)– kona2/4

    the scene where they're all driving and singing 'rocky Top' together always brings tears to my peepers. :D– PonyBoy3/4

    HAHA! and "drive till you hear glass and smell shit!"– kona4/4

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:42 p.m. – Permalink

• AndyRoss

  I basically figure that the only privacy I have any more is other people's lack of curiousity about me.

  • I feel your malaise.– MrOneHundred

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:45 p.m. – Permalink

• emukid

  everything about me is documented in the blog thread anyway so none of this really matters.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:48 p.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  This reminds me of the time in high school our marching band (fuck you, don't laugh at me) was summoned to play for Bush (the first one) at some hanger. I had just sunk 100 of my hard earned money into a spiffy new Walkman (remember those). It was really small, had a digital readout, and a ton of little buttons on it. It looked like a bomb.
  I stood sweating, grasping my Walkman in the security line as two kids form the band were hauled off for frisking and questioning, and they had nothing on them. I carefully handed my tape player to the main Secret Service guy. More kids were being hauled off and searched. He took one look at the Walkman and said "Hey that's neat, go on in" and handed it back to me.

  • I was a 'band fag' too... I even marched in the Holiday Bowl. :)– PonyBoy1/9

    High five? Um, no actually, let's not.– harlequino2/9

    *empties spit valve on harlequino's shoe– PonyBoy3/9

    * pointing and laughing at you - band geek
    
    kidding :D– flashbender4/9

    It's uncanny. The term "band fag" to this day produces automatic acid reflux in me.– harlequino5/9

    Especially if you follow it up by throwing a football at me. Hard.– harlequino6/9

    dude, Daney Carey was on the Drumline.– morilla7/9

    I was in the band for a while too. But we didn't have a marching band. We practiced marching once and it was HARD.– Jaline8/9

    HARD.– Jaline9/9

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 2:50 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  I won't be happy until they're shoeless

  • I'll feel safer– mrdobolina

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 4:54 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  God bless America and Nazi Germany too...

  • any similarities between former fascist regimes will make you look like a crackpot, even if you are right.– mrdobolina1/3

    the difference is that the jews didn't kill 3,000 germans to start things off.– Llyod2/3

    Neither did the Iraqis. Or the Afghanis. It was a bunch of Saudis. Oh, but their our buds.– TheBlueOne3/3

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 5:02 p.m. – Permalink

• MrOneHundred

  < I won't be happy until they're shoeless >

  I won't be happy until they’re jack-boot-less.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 5:28 p.m. – Permalink

• mikotondria2

  Administrator Password, anybody ?

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 7:40 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  just leave britney alone ffs

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 7:43 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  I'm going to start carrying around a pocket electro-magnet for those times when I need to wipe my dataz.

  

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  Dog-earFeb 7, 08, 7:48 p.m. – Permalink