Originally Posted by Gargoyle

In the article quoted by the OP, it states:


What total nonsense. If any smuggler or terrorist wanted to hide "contraband and evidence" on a laptop hard drive, they could instead simply e-mail it or stash it on in a gmail folder or ftp it or whatever, post it on the 'net to be retrieved later. They don't have to physically transport it on a laptop hard drive.

So the entire gov't argument here is specious. How in the world does searching a laptop "protect our borders"?

See, the problem with telling them to "pound sand" is that their head is in the sand, so by pounding sand you are assaulting a government agent.