Re: [silk] delete your files before you travel abroad?

2008-05-04 Thread Dave Long
Coming back in June from a trip to China, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, I had a border agent ask for my digital camera, and he proceeded to walk through every photo, about 800 pictures, asking me questions about where I had gone and what I had done. For what it's worth, this is much more invasiv

Re: [silk] delete your files before you travel abroad?

2008-05-04 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Well, I've never had a laptop checked so far (and indeed it'd be crazily long lines if everybody with a laptop got checked). This is not very new .. has always been the case, but reaffirmed by a ruling I think. Earlier, the TSA was being blamed

Re: [silk] delete your files before you travel abroad?

2008-05-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [03/05/08 22:50 +0200]: i know suresh will complain of EFF exaggeration, but it does annoy me that it's perfectly legal for US customs agents to search laptops [1]. it's just not clear what for. i do believe some other countries occasionally run searches for pirated movies. W

[silk] delete your files before you travel abroad?

2008-05-03 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
i know suresh will complain of EFF exaggeration, but it does annoy me that it's perfectly legal for US customs agents to search laptops [1]. it's just not clear what for. i do believe some other countries occasionally run searches for pirated movies. "Now that US customs agents have unfettered acc