alfaphlex
08-01-2008, 08:38 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103030.html
Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons
Great, now DHS can not only stop you for any reason, search the contents of ANY device in your possession, but they can keep it, duplicate, and distribute it to whoever they want for as long as they want.
Can't imagine the disasters that are gonna occur as a result of this. Imagine flying into the US for some big corporate meeting with highly confidential material (trade secrets), but your laptop gets taken away. Made backups/stored in portable device? Woops, they took those too. And to make things worse, somehow that information ends up in your competitor's hands, a lot of $$$ in somebody's pocket, a big foot in your ass, and you can't prove anything.
Nice! Almost forgot, if you refuse to give them any passwords, they can deny you access into the country, even if you're a citizen. Double Nice!
edit: I'm really, really f*ckin' tired of seeing the word 'terrorism'.
Also, officials may share copies of the laptop's contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons
Great, now DHS can not only stop you for any reason, search the contents of ANY device in your possession, but they can keep it, duplicate, and distribute it to whoever they want for as long as they want.
Can't imagine the disasters that are gonna occur as a result of this. Imagine flying into the US for some big corporate meeting with highly confidential material (trade secrets), but your laptop gets taken away. Made backups/stored in portable device? Woops, they took those too. And to make things worse, somehow that information ends up in your competitor's hands, a lot of $$$ in somebody's pocket, a big foot in your ass, and you can't prove anything.
Nice! Almost forgot, if you refuse to give them any passwords, they can deny you access into the country, even if you're a citizen. Double Nice!
edit: I'm really, really f*ckin' tired of seeing the word 'terrorism'.