[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Not really. Anyone with a shred of intelligence would wipe it from the devices prior to crossing the border. Isn't the border guards job to prevent the inflow of illegal items? If there is no border on electronic information its kind of pointless.

Yeah, except that the fact that they catch people with illegal stuff on their computers would seem to indicate that perhaps the kinds of people that are in possesion of that type of data aren't particuarly intelligent.

Just because there is another way of sending that data across borders, and just because you can't stop the problem competely doens't mean you shouldn't have the tools to prevent at least some of it, and to catch some of the folks who are using, producing and/or transporting it.