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.