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[KoRn]

May be of interest.

[weegee]

Well of “course”. You are “smuggling”.

As copyright enforcement increases at the border, your CD-Rs also put you into dangerous territory.

[MediaMole]

This sounds like a nice big load of FUD. I’d like to see a report with more facts and less editorializing.

[Nowhere Man]

This is just sad and sick, it’s bad enough they go through your laptops but I-Pods? What about your cassettes and 8-Tracks too? Don’t these people have more important things to do like stop terrorists and murderers?

[max americana]

I immigrated here from Canada and aside from ISP’s there clamping down on Downloads (BT’s), this doesn;t exactly surprise me.

[Mr. Blonde]

I wonder how the conversations go when they randomly check someone’s laptop for child porn.

“Is there a problem officer?”
“No, you just look like a pedophile, so we thought we would see what sick **** you have on your computer.”
“Oh well no rush.”

[ShadowAce]

[Nervous Tick]

Here’s a funny anecdote by a guy who had his laptop searched at the Canadian border:

http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2007/03/crossing-border.html

[Gay State Conservative]

(Gay State Conservative scratching Canada off of his vacation destination list)

[DTA]

a note to travelers - guards can taser and kill you on Canadian airport, so do not be too vocal about the strip search.

It is a BS to divert attention from other serious issues such as infiltration of terrorists through Canada.

[webschooner]

I’ve read other stories in recent months about similar harrassment at various borders, occasionally seizing travelers’ laptops for no particularly good reason ...

For future International travel, I think I will NOT be taking my laptop along. Instead, I will prolly take along, an Internet-enabled GSM phone, such as 3G iphone (coming soon), or one of the Android-platform phones that will begin to hit the streets in the next year or so.

Although customs officials could certainly seize smart phones, it seems considerably less likely than them seizing a laptop.

[sionnsar]

Ping.

[sionnsar]

Anyone told Apple about this? Microsoft (Zune)?