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Old 11-23-2008, 06:09 PM  
Ethersync
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Originally Posted by Ayla_SquareTurtle View Post
So US customs can look at anything they want to look at on your computer? If some married couple comes through after their honeymoon and has a private tape of themselves on their laptop or on a cell phone, or hell, even on an SD card for their camera or something, can these guys just sit there and watch it? If you have private financial information in files, can they look at that too? What if you encrypt the files? Fuck, so many questions. That's crazy.
They can go through anything you bring over the border. Period.

This includes being able to legally go through every file on your computer one by one if they want and even copy the entire contents of your laptop/external drive/thumb drive/whatever.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...uting.security
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