blake murphy > wrote:

><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604763.html>

>i have the feeling this practice will end up before the supreme court
>some day. hard to say what they would think about it.

Since you're crossing a border they do not need a warrant
to search you. End of story, I suspect, as far as the Supremes
are concerned, unless there's seriously unreasonable profiling.

It only makes sense to clear cookies/history before getting
on an airplane, and maybe running "Secure Shredder" or similar.
But wiping a laptop until it's blank seems a little extreme.
It would take a long time to restore it from an internet
connection in a hotel.

Also if you re-download your music to your laptop after
wiping it, it seems you are then committing more, rather than
fewer copyright violations.

Steve