Comments on: Warrantless laptop border searches

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:15:30 +0000

Although I disagree with the idiot Judges that claim they can search anyone at all for no reason I do think this guy was a blatant idiot himself. I mean deleted files? heheheheh

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:01:36 +0000

was viewing… typo

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:13:54 +0000

Was view?

WTF! How do I read that?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:02:18 +0000

this is disgusting.
i wish this country would make consistant sentences when it comes to child molestation and child porn.

less then 2 months ago, a man got probation for molesting an 8 year old girl for over 3 years. the To Catch a Predator series on dateline followed up on the pervs they caught and some of them got less then jail time for travelling.. sometimes hours to have sex with a minor. this is really.. really disturbing. not that this man shouldn’t have gotten the sentence he did but its the consistancy that is the biggest issue.

sounds like this guy should have done more molesting and less downloading and im sure he would have been able to walk out of there a free man

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:19:14 +0000

i would be filing a huge lawsuit. the day someone cant step outside and video tape cops doing stuff.

look at rodney king and every other Extreme Video tv show they have out there.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:57:25 +0000

http://www.truecrypt.org/

There you go!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:30:28 +0000

Hmmm…

The point that you missed was that DHS Agents ASKED him to search his laptop and he AGREED. You don’t need a warrent to ask for something, nor do you need a warrent to search when the suspect allows it.

The evidenced could not be surpressed because the suspect did not terminate the search and more than likely signed a form allowing the search.

This was a good thing as this person was view illegal porn.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:17 +0000

Hmmm…

The evidenced could not be surpressed because the suspect did not terminate the search and more than likely signed a form allowing the search.

This was a good thing as this person was view illegal porn.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:39:35 +0000

The guv is simply applying the already unreasonable latitude they have at border crossings to include laptops. Nothing really new here. Cavity search anyone? No warrant or probable cause needed. Any privacy rights you may have left are completely surrendered when crossing US borders, including laptop contents.

P.S. If you encrypt the data on your laptop it just proves you are a criminal tarrarest. Honest law abiting patriotic sheep…er, I mean citizens have nothing to hide and no need for so called “privacy”….