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Border Agents = t3h suck

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According to a recent InfoWeek article, Boarder Agents can search *any* computer they want, without reason or scrutiny. That's gonna be pretty yuk.
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another article in WIRED a while back stated that they can also copy ALL of your data, again without probable cause. welcome to the land of the free...
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You think anything would happen to them if they decided to copy off from machines with little red stickers on them?
Probably not, and then you would get stuck with the paperwork.
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You wouldn't stick your shtick in a foreign place without protection, why would you carry around important stuff without the same?!?!?!
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When you have to follow the configuration control of the org that owns the machines you are carying, you can't do shlits to their shlit.
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Then they should get their shlits together and give you the tools to do your job in a safe manner! ;)
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Sabre wrote:Then they should get their shlits together and give you the tools to do your job in a safe manner! ;)
Thinking like that will get you FIRED.

True story. :(
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NOT cool!
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