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The Government Is Getting Grabby With Hard Drives At US Borders

Will you be crossing any US borders anytime soon, and are you planning to bring along your laptop and digital camera? If you get stopped for a random search at the border, be prepared to fork over your hard drives to the Department of Homeland Security.

Don't worry; they aren't interested in the naughty hotel room pictures you took or the screenplay you're writing about a mysterious murder on a cruise ship, unless your pictures contain child pornography and your screenplay has North Korean missile launch codes. What they're really after is the good old, run-of-the-mill terrorist and smuggling information.

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