The unionized, moronic, jackbooted goons in charge of the orwelian kabuki theater known as “airline security” are bad enough. Now customs officials are seizing laptops and cameras without cause.
The security value of the program is unclear, critics say, while the threats to business and privacy are substantial. If drives are being copied, customs officials are potentially duplicating corporate secrets, legal records, financial data, medical files, and personal E-mails and photographs as well as stored passwords for accounts from Netflix to Bank of America. DHS contends that travelers’ computers can also contain child pornography, intellectual property offenses, or terrorist secrets. (Emphasis added)
Suggestions:
- Encrypt your hard drive before travel.
- Do a Carbonite backup before returning home and then wipe the drive.
- Eat a lot of beans before going through Customs, if you know what I mean.
This is just absurd.
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