Officer browsing through iPad at secondary screening?
May 22, 2016, 1:25 am
#31
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Having a computer searched for child porn (and bestiality) when entering Canada from the USA is not normal. It's not like you were returning from Cambodia (or New Zealand).
May 22, 2016, 3:51 pm
#32
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And more importantly, what's the point of such a control? I mean, you can access everything from Canada as well. No need to cross the border. And there are plenty of ways to hide the stuff.
May 26, 2016, 7:45 pm
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The ironic bit was that she never ended up searching the computer; Windows picked that time to install a bunch of updates that I'd been putting off; after about fifteen minutes of waiting for the installs to finish, she said "Do you have anything you'd feel unconfortable showing me on your computer?" When I said "No" she told me to pack up and leave.
TB-ES
May 26, 2016, 8:42 pm
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Even if someone collected "bad stuff" while traveling abroad, wouldn't they store it in the 'cloud' (or the equivalent)--but NOT on their physical computer.
May 26, 2016, 10:06 pm
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Here's a cracking longread about an American convicted of having child pornography on his computer when returning from Thailand, who later skipped probation, moved to Cambodia, and began telling everyone he never did it and it was a different guy with a similar name.
http://www.khmer440.com/k/2016/05/is...-sex-offender/
May 28, 2016, 8:24 pm
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Apparently, it's a known ruse for CBP officers to tell passengers they are looking for child pornography on their computers when they are really looking for something else entirely.
Here's a story about CBP seizing and searching a guy's computers for evidence of violation of Iran sanctions. They told him they were looking for child porn.
http://www.lexology.com/library/deta...b-9aaad76fca4a
May 29, 2016, 11:55 am
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