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Old May 7, 2006 | 1:52 pm
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Originally Posted by impact
The officer had me turn on laptop and proceeded to go through all my files.
There are 492,714 files on my PowerBook. It would take some time to go through them. Besides, it would be trivially simple to conceal data - by using an encrypted filesystem for example - which would make it impossible for someone casually poking around for half an hour to find what they were looking for. Seems like a pointless exercise to me.
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