> >I would rather be in a country
> >where they did search some percentage of the incoming passport holders
> >belongings than one where they didn't.
>
> Can you explain why?
Sure.
1) I am NOT saying a really smart person cannot download amazing naughty
bits from china via 1024 bit cyphers or something.
2) I am NOT saying that every criminal is dumb and puts papers in his
briefcase with "Bomb plans - secret" on them (though one of the trade
center bombers was caught with such at the airport claiming asylum in the
US IIRC)
What I am saying is that the majority of people who are up to naughty
things entering a country will have some tell-tale information on their
person, and holding random searches is better than not.
As for the question of searching laptops. Most people again do not enter
with unix systems and small chunks of random bits hidden about. They enter
with some windows machine that has information strewn about it everywhere.
Searching the harddrive for some stuff might then yield something.
whether a pharma companies annual report would ring the same alarms
assecret plans I don't know. A simple pink pixel count on images would
probably bring lots of hits.
My point of view is that searching a harddrive everynow and then would do
more good than harm.
SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq #14047829
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