Airport / Border Patrol searching laptops

[edro]

What would the TSA or Police do if you have a horrendous image (goat es ee, etc) set as your background when they start it up and look at your laptop?

I have heard that the border guard will search through your laptop when you come back into the country.

Is this a way to say "screw you"?

 

[Joemonkey]

what if you have a BIOS or HDD password and refuse to enter it in?

 

[howlinmad]

I'm sure you're really screwing them by doing this.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
what if you have a BIOS or HDD password and refuse to enter it in?

I have heard that they arrest you.
I'm sure we can find an article somewhere.

The article I remember seeing was a case where a guy had an encrypted password on one of this folders and he would not enter it.

 

[angry hampster]

What? Your files are searched upon re-entry to the country? That sounds absurd..do you have any links to this?

 

[BW86]

link to article?

 

[ShockwaveVT]

Originally posted by: angry hampster
What? Your files are searched upon re-entry to the country? That sounds absurd..do you have any links to this?

Not all laptops are searched in this way but if Customs wants to, they can search the contents of your HDD.

Currently a hot topic on Capitol Hill.

 

[nakedfrog]

Who needs the Fourth Amendment anyway?

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
what if you have a BIOS or HDD password and refuse to enter it in?

They throw you in Gitmo and call you an enemy combatant. Pretty sure the Bill of rights was shredded and recycled to make the Patriot and other Nanny laws

 

[Cuular]

Originally posted by: edro

Originally posted by: Joemonkey
what if you have a BIOS or HDD password and refuse to enter it in?

I have heard that they arrest you.
I'm sure we can find an article somewhere.

The article I remember seeing was a case where a guy had an encrypted password on one of this folders and he would not enter it.

It went something like they discovered child porn on his laptop. He had setup a PGP wrapper that would auto encrypt all his data if he didn't log in and do somethig to stop it. So when they went back to try and get the info off it, at a later time, it was now gone.

"They" were trying to force him to give them his encryption key, so they could decrypt it and bring charges against him. The judge decided that since it was private property, it would be much like forcing someone to testify against themselves, and break his constitutional rights.

So he was not forced to give them his key.

Story Beginning

Continuation, judge ruled, like the 5th amendment, you can't cause him to incriminate himself by revealing data on his personal PC.

 

[marvdmartian]

I've seen jump drives with super encryption, that supposedly will do the same sort of thing. You try to hack into it, it nukes the information stored on it's chip.

Not that I condone sickos with kiddy porn, or anything similar, but if I had something I didn't want them to see, I'd just carry one of those style jump drives. Unless they search your pockets, they're not even going to know it's in there.

 

[sutahz]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian
I've seen jump drives with super encryption, that supposedly will do the same sort of thing. You try to hack into it, it nukes the information stored on it's chip.

Not that I condone sickos with kiddy porn, or anything similar, but if I had something I didn't want them to see, I'd just carry one of those style jump drives. Unless they search your pockets, they're not even going to know it's in there.

Because it's not going to set off the metal detector right?

Although, if the jump drive is on your key chain I'd think there's a high probablility they wouldn't even want to search it because they wouldn't know what it was.
Sherrifs that siezed my computers left 2 external hdd's behind (one even had the bottom removed so you could clearly see it was a hdd), but they did bring down a PSU I had laying around because they thought it might have evidence stored in it.

Now to ATFQ:
If the image isnt illegal what can they do? If you're background was "Forever Jihad" you'd open yourself up for intense questioning. But 2 men embraced in 69 while each have 2 cocks being ramed up their asses, is gross but not illegal.

 

[ahartman]

Originally posted by: angry hampster
What? Your files are searched upon re-entry to the country? That sounds absurd..do you have any links to this?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...8jun26,0,4126383.story

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian
I've seen jump drives with super encryption, that supposedly will do the same sort of thing. You try to hack into it, it nukes the information stored on it's chip.

Not that I condone sickos with kiddy porn, or anything similar, but if I had something I didn't want them to see, I'd just carry one of those style jump drives. Unless they search your pockets, they're not even going to know it's in there.

I don't care if you've got child porn or if you've only got a list of your favorite types of pie. No one is privileged to that information without your permission. Laptop searches are simply bullshit; the stated purpose of searching people at the airport is to protect passengers from bombs and whatnot. With this in mind, searching a laptop's contents is a waste of time.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: howlinmad
I'm sure you're really screwing them by doing this.

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