[MediaMole]

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

[MediaMole]

Vancouver Sun story about the issue.

Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers

There is still very little hard info, apart from a reference to a supposed leaked document. A lot of speculation.

[MarkL]

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

Actually, this is going on, on both sides of the US/Canadian border.

The security officer of our company has been telling our executives that if they leave the country, they should ship their laptops to the destination in order to miss these searches.

There does seem to be some question though, on the legality of searching through the file system of a laptop which has been encrypted. And all of my company's laptops and smartphones have been encrypted and locked down.

Mark

[sionnsar]

Hardly. When I re-entered the U.S. last December I was diverted to Customs for no discernable reason and subjected to a pretty intensive search that included checking the photos in my digital camera (all they saw was London & Vienna) and came very close to a search of my laptop hard drive -- I was quite firmly advised that they had the right. I think it was my confidence that they'd find nothing that stopped them.

Since then I have replaced my PDA (which I didn't have with me) with a new cellphone, including a utility for keeping logins & passwords (encrypted). When I go overseas next week, I'm replacing the memory card in the cellphone with one that doesn't have that particular data on it (and never did or will).

It's a brave new world out there...