On Wed, 7 May 2008 12:01:47 -0700 (PDT), Branson Hunter
<bh2322@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>DIGITAL AND INTERNET PRIVACY - LOSSES AND WINS
>
>Founding Fathers Know Best? Not exactly. The Fourth Amendment was
>dumped right here in Los Angeles.
The track record of the 9th circuit speaks for itself. Usually they
get their decisions overturned.
The 4th amendment is quite clear. It has never given unlimited search
powers to any division of law enforcement for any reason. So no,
Customs, TSA, and others who control the borders do not have the legal
right to go through your laptop and search for what ever do***ents
they may find not to their liking. You want to search my computer? Get
a search warrant.
But knowing this, I can easily thwart them at their own game.
Buy a 2nd hard drive. Have nothing on it when I go through customs.
The other one is in the mail being delivered to my destination.
Sealed in such a way that I will know if it got tampered with or not.
However, they can legally search your belongings for certain known
banned contraband. To my knowleldge, private papers, and laptops are
not among those.
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