DHS: Laptop Border Searches Are Bad... Except When We Do It
Found on Techdirt on Wednesday, 17 September 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has been actively (though with really weak arguments) defending its policy of searching laptops at the border, even without probable cause. Yet, at the very same time that it was staunchly defending the policy and refusing to testify in front of Congress over it, it was also issuing a report warning international travelers not to take laptops, since foreign governments often search them.
There's something that pops up in my mind everytime I read news like this: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter".