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Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices (with video)
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| August 5, 2009
| Pamela Geller
Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I think he'll have a little problem with the Fourth Amendment there.
To: Free ThinkerNY
"Border guards will be given unprecedented powers to search travelers without warning. They will be able to go through and confiscate any material a person has on their laptop."
Unfortunately this isn't new. I discovered it while reading up on getting a passport almost 2 years ago. It doesn't make it anymore right though.
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:00:10 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:00:42 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
To: hinckley buzzard
He won’t have any problems. Who is going to stop him? He is acting as King, Chief, Boss...NOT as President of the U.S.A.
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:04:47 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: cripplecreek
Obama is marching toward totalitarianism as fast and as much as he can get away with.
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:05:04 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
To: hinckley buzzard
>> I think he’ll have a little problem with the Fourth Amendment there.
Not when crossing the national border. The right to search your personal effects (including your laptop and other electronic media) when entering the country has been upheld in court.
And, of course, OTHER countries HAVE no Fourth Amendment. Canada, for example. And China? Ha.
It’s sad, but it’s very real. I take the issue pretty seriously myself. I travel outside the US quite often and so far no problems... but you can’t be too careful these days.
Anyway, with a little effort it’s possible to arrange things so you don’t have to worry about it.
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:09:33 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:12:40 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices Good, now we can more easily find out what the various commie-left organizations are up to! Also the slimy demonRat politicians who associate with them. (yeah, right)
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:14:07 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: hinckley buzzard
Border agents and postal workers can search anything that’s crossing the borders - even your rectum - without a warrant. This has pretty much always been the case. First class mail searches were the basis for Bush’s search of electronic and telephonic communications when one party was overseas, limited to the information coming into the country.
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:29:08 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("Do you call it 'unsound method'?" "No method at all," I murmured.)
To: cripplecreek
In practical terms how would the person doing the searching know if something is legitimately owned or not? I mean if I have a Beatles song on my laptop how do they know if I bought it from itunes or pirated it from Limewire?
To: Free ThinkerNY
So I’ve got somewhere around 360 albums/3,000 songs on my iPhone. How am I supposed to prove that they are legit? Carry around 360+ CD’s, or receipts I no longer have?
To: Free ThinkerNY
Just get PGP and you’re cool.
To: hinckley buzzard
The 4th ammendment means as much to him as the other 9. He is ignoring/stomping on the entire Constitution and no one is raising hell about it.
Hey Barry, why are you hiding your life records?
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:42:22 PM PDT
by
Texas resident
( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
To: FreepShop1
Just get PGP and youre cool. This would be better: TrueCrypt
To: Free ThinkerNY
Make it impossible to read:
TrueCrypt. I have a 16 GB decoy that is not encrypted, and has the usual junk - Windows XP, Office, a few hundred pictures, some files, etc. And then I have my OS and partition that is TrueCrypt encoded. Good luck breaking that one, or even realizing it's installed/exists.
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posted on
08/05/2009 8:56:58 PM PDT
by
PugetSoundSoldier
(Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
To: hinckley buzzard
Haven’t you heard the news...Obama has amended all the amendments...none of them apply to this Thugocracy...
Civil war is coming folks...make sure you are prepared...we will have a very dark period in this country...
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posted on
08/05/2009 9:09:51 PM PDT
by
surfer
To: bamahead
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posted on
08/05/2009 9:36:19 PM PDT
by
EdReform
(The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
To: EdReform
In England, you can go to jail for not revealing a decryption key, but I think that may be a line that won’t be crossed here.
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posted on
08/05/2009 9:45:05 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
This is just one more way they are snaking their way in, to track dissidents among the masses. Copyright is just another guise to breach our Constitutional rights of free speech. They don’t give a crap about copied music, they want to see who’s against the admin!
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