Anyone heard of this? US Government to search any computer at any time
 

certainly some very disturbing policies coming about lately.

I had a complete search entering LAX a while ago. Full laptop, email and HD search. It was a royal pain in the ass.

They gave up going after the criminals because they can afford legal advice, so instead they just go after everyone now, and go through everything without any reason.

but but but, they said Lord obama would make everything ok!

obama to know anything

hahaha so youtube is your source for facts damn

The policy changes are about file-sharing, illegal copies, and enforcing copyright laws.

Searches at border crossings are already happening.

This is P2P propaganda to raise public fears in my opinion.

SO some guy in an airport can search my laptop, find a folder with music and what?? Accuse me of File sharing??? Ha.

Encrypt all your data with encrypted partition and problem solved.

If they find encrypted partitions or data, they are allowed to take a full copy of your Disk. I dont think you want that.

wow aren't you smart

When you vote for big government, you get lots of stuff like this.

This is a complete invasion of privacy. There must be a reason to search anything, and possibly a warrant. They can't just go scanning every ones hard drives and copying everything - impossible and against your constitutional rights.

Oh I am sure that this would be challenged, but holy shit, thats just crazy that the powers that be would even think about this. I am disappointed. It is under the guise of filesharing protection, but it is just stupid. I am sure hacked applications, any non politically correct letters, email, and of course, porn will be dissected thoroughly. And I doubt I will see this on the CBS Evening News this evening :( ...Fucking U.S. media.

Ship your computer ahead and bring a book on the plane.

You don't like this either? You don't want him to protect your Copyrighted material?

The current laws aren't working, so just wondering when you do or don't want him to do something about it.




Aye, Bush man, he truly went nuts didn't he? Making it so it was legal to search computers, hold you forever, all that crazy crap. Crazy how many years this has been going on, at least 8 or so now right?


I say down with Obama on this! Clearly our Industry 'supports' stolen material, clearly we should fight this to make a point that stealing is perfectly fine with the adult industry!

Do you really think we are included with this?!? imho, they could give 2 shits about us.

In relation to questionable material, absolutely. All we need is the fear, we don't need to bust someone.

Not to say that would be fair, to include this industry Doc, I wholeheartedly agree on that point. But the christian right would shit they're pants if they saw that the government was (gasp), also protecting the rights of pornographers all around the world. Fallout like this would end more than one politicians career, if they publicly supported us.

I love how everybody thinks that big brother even cares about them.

It's like walking around wondering what people think about you. Nobody is thinking about you because they are walking around wondering the same thing.

Guess what? Most of us are insignificant. Nobody cares about us.

first thing cops take now is your computer, regardless of crime, this is nothing new LOL

I also love how it says "Obama passing new law..."

Obama does not pass laws. That is the job of Congress. They pass them and Obama either signs of vetoes them. If he vetoes them, Congress can still get the law past him.

Obama can introduce bills to Congress, but he can't pass them. Neither can his VP, who essentially oversees the Senate.

Signing statements are a beast of their own, but they don't even come into play unless Congress passes something in the first place.

please do not over sensationalize what the media has already blown out of proportion. ACTA is an INTERNATIONAL treaty. and this all a bunch of what ifs. if you are that concerned, write your representative.

coming here pointing fingers at u.s. is sophmoric attention seeking.

If anyone here thinks this is an issue of copyrighted material, boy have I got some swamp land in Florida to sell you. This has a lot more to do with tracking, tracing and surveilling. It's a trojan horse that is being used to put another piece in place for the implementation of a total police state.

Fuck you! I thought it needed to be shared... and I did!

you continue to show your intelligence with your posts.

...and you continue to show your absolute ignorance by thinking that "what if's" would not actually be implemented by any government. What the fuck is wrong with you? Come back when you have a valid argument, OR continue to be a good little gullible citizen. And I live in the U.S., people here can, and are expected to question what our gov. is doing, although many here are to the point of being "dumb downed sheep". So unless you have an interest seeing this passed, you have no valid argument. "sophmoric attention seeking" has nothing to do with this... and something tells me you had to "google" the fucking word to spell it right.

wow, that would be fucked up if it passed.

just unplug your ethernet jack :2 cents:

:2 cents::2 cents:

relax. you obviously have pent up anger and are taking it out on the wrong person.

i never argued with you, i don't argue with people such as you.


reread my comments.

if you will calm down and stop being defensive you will see i simply asked you to not over-sensationalize the issue, by doing so and not taking action, you appear to be attention seeking.

fact is, i am right- you should act (write your representative) on things you disagree with. that's how it's supposed to work.
it does no good to cast light on this subject in an irresponsible manner at gfy by making it out to be a u.s. gov deal, notice all the obama comments.

it's like people whining about tubes, whine whine and no action. people come here and whine about things yet do nothing to try and change their situation.

i am not being defensive, simply stating the fact of the article, which is Russian! Der Spiegel, which is German, also wrote an op ed piece about this.
Yes, of course people that do not like Obama are going to take this opportunity to post bad things about him. I, on the other hand, voted for the man. This is not an indirect "slam" against him by any means. The point of this thread is the "bigger picture" and the possibility, not assuming fact, but the possibility of the huge ramifications if something like this were to go through. It is always better to be aware than ignorant. The fact that some people here who have read this thread, can now deduce and make their own opinions now... I have done my job. I also posted this on one of my mainstream blogs as well, so even more people can make opinions... Fact of the matter is that U.S. media does not report everything that it probably should. Chiding me for posting something that has the potential to affect this industry, especially since the large majority of users of this board are "e-based" seems a bit ridiculous. I did not mean to be an asshole, but next time, come at me in a different way, if you have an issue. Responding, calling me names in your first response, is in itself, adolescent imho.

The government will always try to invade your privacy. It's up to you to come up with new means to protect it. I'm SURE there is a data storage alternative to hard disks already in the works that contains no metals so you can easily sneak it passed security ;)

Eventually the government and the powers that be will just label anyone who opposes them a terrorist if you stand up or say anything against them.

Between things like this, the Patriot Act, and TARP (funnellig your money into big business hands) its amazing there aren't riots in the steets...

But nobody seems to care or want to stand up and fight for anything except oil in Iraq. hm.

This is Bullshit!

maybe theyll check all the stolen content on your tube sites :thumbsup

lately? if you don't think the government has ALREADY been spying on people's computers for YEARS then you're fucking stupid.

That being said, that eurostrash "news" channel is obviously an Obama hater.

WOW if GFY is one's main source for news then they need to just kill themselves now.

Rabble rabble rabble

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sad to see such stupid things happening in so called "Land of freedom", All American citizens should riot against this bullshit...

As nasty as you, Richard?

I see a new business opportunity.

Breakable USB sticks, perforated in the middle for easy snapping.

Anybody carrying a laptop across foreign borders is crazy.

If it's bullshit why riot? I'm not going to riot because some guy in tin foil hat is paranoid. When a republican is in office the left wing nuts think the government is trying to spy on them and take away their freedoms. When a democrat is on office the right wing nuts think the government is trying to spy on them and take away their freedoms. Funny how that works.

these type of threads daily now obama is passing a law americans have to grow a afro or cornrows true story:)

this is going live in Canada as well

54321 ACLU steps in...

ok I maybe not the most Tech Savy here but I think I know a bit...


1- How can they tell that MP3 file in my Laptop or Ipod/Iphone was downloaded on a torrent or simply copied form a CD I have back home?

2- How can they tell that the Microsoft Office Suite I have in my laptop is a legit one or not?

3- How can they tell if the Movie I have in my laptop have been illigally Downloaded or simply copied from a DVD I have back home. (At the begining of movies in French Version of Interpol disclaimer, it says something like : ".... Copy for the private use is allowed ..."

That being said, they scanned my MacBook at Quebec Airport when I got back from Xbiz Vegas last year, they were looking for C-P ... Found nothing beside some galleries I was doing for Penthouse because their "search Software" is not working on Macs, gave them a business card and told them that was a good thing actually... Guys were asking me for sites URL.. lol


So yes I think that in the future, if you carry a a laptop with you thru Security Check, they will do some "random" searches from time to time... Fantastic when you have short layovers..

another bitter day in the land of make believe, eh kid?:1orglaugh