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Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices (with video)
atlas shrugs ^ | August 5, 2009 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

"In extreme secrecy from the public, the Obama administration is hammering out an international treaty with other several other countries and the EU ......under ACTA, the government will get sweeping new powers to search and seize material thought to be in breach of copyright. But why all the secrecy? What it will do on a larger scale is let big brother watch you; however, this time on a completely different level."

"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."

(Excerpt) Read more at atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhofascism; cwii; democrats; lping; obama; privacy
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1 posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:37 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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I think he'll have a little problem with the Fourth Amendment there.
2 posted on 08/05/2009 7:59:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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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.
3 posted on 08/05/2009 8:00:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

He owns most courts


4 posted on 08/05/2009 8:00:42 PM PDT by GeronL (Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
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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.


5 posted on 08/05/2009 8:04:47 PM PDT by madison10
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To: cripplecreek

Obama is marching toward totalitarianism as fast and as much as he can get away with.


6 posted on 08/05/2009 8:05:04 PM PDT by Red Steel
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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.


7 posted on 08/05/2009 8:09:33 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wonder why the top cyber-security peep left?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/03/AR2009080302697_pf.html


8 posted on 08/05/2009 8:12:40 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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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)

9 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/)
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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.


10 posted on 08/05/2009 8:29:08 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Do you call it 'unsound method'?" "No method at all," I murmured.)
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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?
11 posted on 08/05/2009 8:37:04 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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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?


12 posted on 08/05/2009 8:37:46 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just get PGP and you’re cool.


13 posted on 08/05/2009 8:42:19 PM PDT by FreepShop1
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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?


14 posted on 08/05/2009 8:42:22 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: FreepShop1
Just get PGP and you’re cool.

This would be better: TrueCrypt

15 posted on 08/05/2009 8:50:59 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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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.
16 posted on 08/05/2009 8:56:58 PM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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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...


17 posted on 08/05/2009 9:09:51 PM PDT by surfer
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To: bamahead

Ping


18 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)
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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.


19 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.")
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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!


20 posted on 08/05/2009 9:46:17 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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