Originally Posted by QUERY

I would not make that assumption. CBP is a large organization. It would be safe to say that they have a unit of their own to deal with these situations. If they retain possession of the laptop because the pax was noncompliant, they have the time to work on the problem. I'm not saying that's right but we know that it happens. You can learn a lot about someone from what's on their computer. Unless they are using a drive encryption utility, which encrypts the entire drive, there will be plaintext files on the computer with which to work with.