Your laptop can now be searched at LAX

[megiddo]

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

since it is an article on US law i was commentin on US law

we all know about what goes on here in ja, whether legal or not, but then again i wouldnt worry about a police officer in ja trying to search my laptop

[kilaj1]

just what they need more delays at them airports lol...when i went through MIA airport they had a bomb sniffing machine that everyone had to go through...thats all fine and dandy but they only had one!! lines where 200-300 people long

[Technoboy]

Wow, this is serious. Hmmm. This just adds more to the bias for most of here being:

1. Black
2. Jamaican

lol.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Here's more.

The implications for companies are serious. Suppose you are traveling on business and you have your company laptop with sensitive company data on it, and US customs wants to search your laptop and copy the data on the hard disk? Serious breach of company confidentiality right there. Trade secrets, financial documents, customer data, all gone to the US govt.

According to this article they be digging up in phones and messing with call records too. Nothing is safe - USB drives, phones, PDAs, laptops.

[hv_thugg]

travel is no longer fun thanx to bin laddin usa and the rest of them.

[newtech]

i disagree travel is no longer fun thanks to america.

[kilaj1]

what i cant understand is that this kind of screening while it will catch some criminals wouldn't this add to delays? If i have a 500GB internal HDD that 95% full, plus my external 1TB drive, you telling em them going to search through everything?

[rickyricardo]

nuttin could be on my laptop that they possibly want so tough luck

[BlackCryptoKnight]

what i cant understand is that this kind of screening while it will catch some criminals wouldn't this add to delays? If i have a 500GB internal HDD that 95% full, plus my external 1TB drive, you telling em them going to search through everything?

They are not just searching manually through hard disk contents. They are cloning or copying data from drives, or just holding on to the laptops or devices for weeks or even permanently. No delay there. Just copy, or confiscate then send you on your way.

[hv_thugg]

They are not just searching manually through hard disk contents. They are cloning or copying data from drives, or just holding on to the laptops or devices for weeks or even permanently. No delay there. Just copy, or confiscate then send you on your way.

umm which airports that happening? because i went noth and i havent seen such activities.