Bizarro, "Black Helicopters" type question

[Shroomy]

Sorry the situation happend to you.

They have a hard job, and one that tends to attact exactly the type of person who shouldnt be doing it.

Its unlikely that they installed anything, but I would be parinoid too.

and yeah.. they pretty much can do whatever they want at customs.

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they can look at your computer, but I don't think they have the right to go through your files.

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Okay, I'm not a lawyer, but I know at customs they can look throught you luggage, etc. without a warrant or permission. I assumed that also applied to looking at data in your computer, but I could be wrong.

[Nepa]

I would bet that your whole house is bugged. Look carefully at the flies flying around they could be cameras. I would also burn your passport as that is surely bugged. As for you computer. I would bet that every single keystroke is goes right back to the NSA. If they strip searched you they might have put bugs into your clothing. In closing, There is nothing to worry about unless you are breaking some laws. I would get the tin foil out and put it over your windows today.

[stabn]

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they can look at your computer, but I don't think they have the right to go through your files.

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Okay, I'm not a lawyer, but I know at customs they can look throught you luggage, etc. without a warrant or permission. I assumed that also applied to looking at data in your computer, but I could be wrong.

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They can, here is a related thread, i read the story somewhere else before but this was the first link on it i found from a quick search today:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...7005501831/p/1

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In U.S. v. Romm, No. 04-10648, the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit ruled that customs officials can seize and search the contents of anyone’s laptop computer, even in the absence of a search warrant or probable cause.


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He was mistaken. His actions had merely deleted the pointers to the cached files—the files themselves remained on the laptop. Using special software, customs officials were able to find 42 images of child pornography on the laptop’s hard drive. These images were subsequently used to convict Romm of knowingly receiving and possessing child pornography in violation of federal law. Romm appealed, but the 9th Circuit upheld the border search and the conviction.


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Damn! I would have liked to be wrong about that one.

[Beavis68]

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they can look at your computer, but I don't think they have the right to go through your files.

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Okay, I'm not a lawyer, but I know at customs they can look throught you luggage, etc. without a warrant or permission. I assumed that also applied to looking at data in your computer, but I could be wrong.

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Yes, and I could be too, but if someone where carrying a corporate laptop with sensitive info, I doubt that they have the right to look through it and copy it at will.

If they could take it, they probably wouldn't say "we need to look at your laptop" they would take and and leave with it.

I would at least want to be in the room when they looked through it, but if I were actually in that spot I would probably be shatting my pants and have them do whatever they want.

And I am actually a repblican, but this is the crap that I really did not want to happen. Nuke who ever the hell you want, but leave the citizens alone.