Originally Posted by
law dawg
While their are rights to some degree at the border they are not what people think they are entitled to, for the most part.
That's why you always encrypt your stuff.
They can search your laptop but a recent court decision indicates that things are moving to where they can't compel you to produce a password.
I wish MacOS had TrueCrypt - that is even more awesome. You can create encrypted filesystems that have a duress password. You give someone the password and they find a filesystem with a few harmless pictures or mp3s or something. But it has a false bottom - you need the real password to access the files. Oh, and there is no way to prove that you gave them the duress password vs the real password. I recommend it to anyone who is crossing our nazi-like border crossings now.
Oh, here's an update: TrueCrypt 5.0 will supposedly work on MacOS! And it's scheduled to be released in January! W00t!