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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
All that stuff is going to go on whether they are searching laptops at the airport or not. They aren't going to stop anything. It's just another level of useless security that doesn't actually secure anything, invades privacy, costs a lot of money, and inconveniences people all at the same time. For what? Nothing. Or at least next to nothing.
There are a million ways to get around this kind of "security", and I don't even mean with encryption devices or anything like that. Like someone else said -- "have they not heard of the internet"? You don't need your files to even be stored on your computer. You can get to them anywhere if you have the slightest lick of sense.
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Sure, as I said above, only an idiot gets caught with stuff on his laptop. But if you are a terrorist, and know that the US Government can theoreticaly open any email and intercept any data stream you choose to send over the Net, do you perhaps think that snaking in your plots on a laptop are no more risky? Same goes for child porn. You might not be willing to transmit that stuff, but if you've got a little flash drive in your pocket, you might think it's safe to carry it around with you.
I do tend to agree that it is probably pointless for them to search these things in the long run, but what are the chances they are actually searching without some level of concern about the guy who's carrying the laptop? (And by that I 'hope' I don't mean that the colour of his skin is their trigger.)