Posted on 05/30/2008 10:22:27 PM PDT by martin_fierro
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Well of “course”. You are “smuggling”.
As copyright enforcement increases at the border, your CD-Rs also put you into dangerous territory.
This sounds like a nice big load of FUD. I’d like to see a report with more facts and less editorializing.
This is just sad and sick, it’s bad enough they go through your laptops but I-Pods? What about your cassettes and 8-Tracks too? Don’t these people have more important things to do like stop terrorists and murderers?
Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
There is still very little hard info, apart from a reference to a supposed leaked document. A lot of speculation.
Proposed US ACTA multi-lateral intellectual property trade agreement (2007)
On the surface, it looks like they are targeting commercial piracy, not some guy taking his iPod through customs.
I immigrated here from Canada and aside from ISP’s there clamping down on Downloads (BT’s), this doesn;t exactly surprise me.
I wonder how the conversations go when they randomly check someone’s laptop for child porn.
“Is there a problem officer?”
“No, you just look like a pedophile, so we thought we would see what sick **** you have on your computer.”
“Oh well no rush.”
Actually, this is going on, on both sides of the US/Canadian border.
The security officer of our company has been telling our executives that if they leave the country, they should ship their laptops to the destination in order to miss these searches.
There does seem to be some question though, on the legality of searching through the file system of a laptop which has been encrypted. And all of my company's laptops and smartphones have been encrypted and locked down.
Mark
Here’s a funny anecdote by a guy who had his laptop searched at the Canadian border:
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2007/03/crossing-border.html
Since then I have replaced my PDA (which I didn't have with me) with a new cellphone, including a utility for keeping logins & passwords (encrypted). When I go overseas next week, I'm replacing the memory card in the cellphone with one that doesn't have that particular data on it (and never did or will).
It's a brave new world out there...
(Gay State Conservative scratching Canada off of his vacation destination list)
a note to travelers - guards can taser and kill you on Canadian airport, so do not be too vocal about the strip search.
It is a BS to divert attention from other serious issues such as infiltration of terrorists through Canada.
I’ve read other stories in recent months about similar harrassment at various borders, occasionally seizing travelers’ laptops for no particularly good reason ...
For future International travel, I think I will NOT be taking my laptop along. Instead, I will prolly take along, an Internet-enabled GSM phone, such as 3G iphone (coming soon), or one of the Android-platform phones that will begin to hit the streets in the next year or so.
Although customs officials could certainly seize smart phones, it seems considerably less likely than them seizing a laptop.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
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