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The Government Is Getting Grabby With Hard Drives At US Borders

August 31, 2009 at 9:24 AM | by | Comments (0)

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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