Your laptop can now be searched at LAX

[Arch_Angel]

It may hold our financial records, innermost thoughts and pictures of our loved ones - but there's nothing private about a laptop computer at the nation's borders, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

In a closely watched search-and-seizure case, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's decision to toss evidence of alleged child pornography found on a traveler's computer at Los Angeles International Airport.

Michael Timothy Arnold was a 44-year-old Orange County math teacher when he arrived July 17, 2005, at the LAX customs counter after a three-week trip in the Philippines.

Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers turned on his laptop, clicked on a file and found a photo of two nude women, according to the opinion.

Arnold was detained and his computer and other equipment were searched. Numerous images of alleged child pornography were found.

Read more: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_9009312

Can you imagine your laptop now being searched at customs? Would you be embarrassed at what they find?

[BlackCryptoKnight]

TrueCrypt for the win!

[Bl@ze]

Read more: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_9009312

Can you imagine your laptop now being searched at customs? Would you be embarrassed at what they find?

Arnold was later charged with possessing and transporting child pornography, and faces up to 30 years in federal prison if convicted.

yeah like the sound of that

[CyberCat]

Dual boot (linux and windoze) - set wondoze as the default.

[tommytrouble]

i bet this guy had on big round frame glasses..thats all customs need in us to know a guy has those though sin there head...but then all they would prob find on mind is big booty chiks..westcoast style lol

[megiddo]

thanks for the link BCK


if he had a password he wouldnt have so much problems, its like when a police officer pulls you over, if your trunk is locked they need a warrant to go in there, same way if he had a password they would need a warrant to go in, unless he let them search it

[hv_thugg]

thanks for the link BCK


if he had a password he wouldnt have so much problems, its like when a police officer pulls you over, if your trunk is locked they need a warrant to go in there, same way if he had a password they would need a warrant to go in, unless he let them search it

lol a which country you live lol mi sure is not jamaica.

[ramesh]

So you don't think the US Government has a 'back door' to all encryption methods?

[Gladiator]

something is wrong with this. someone needs to take this to the Supreme Court.

[KoyoteGambit]

thanks for the link BCK


if he had a password he wouldnt have so much problems, its like when a police officer pulls you over, if your trunk is locked they need a warrant to go in there, same way if he had a password they would need a warrant to go in, unless he let them search it

Too much Jay-Z, under the Dangerous Drugs Act, Section 21 Subsection 1

If any constable has reasonable cause to suspect
that any conveyance is being used or has been used for the
commission of any offence against this Act, he may without
a warrant search and, if such search reveals evidence that
the conveyance is being used or has been used for the commission
of any offence as aforesaid, seize and detain such
conveyance.

Sorry under Jamaican Law, no warrant is needed. You can find the entire Act here.

Oh, and in the U.S. it applies as well, The officer asks if it can be searched, and if he has probable cause to believe that a crime has been commited, he can enter the trunk WITHOUT a warrant. Probable Cause Clause