All ur data R belong to US

[W1nTry]

Note the name is somewhat of a PUN as well... this is scary, but moresover for US citizens...

Your Smart Phone's data belong us, says US

Danger from US customs checkpoints

By Tony Dennis: Sunday 12 November 2006, 21:16
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US CITIZENS face the danger of their smartphones being confiscated ad infinitum according to a report in the New York Times.

This report revealed that laptop computers are currently seized on a completely ad hoc basis from US citizens on re-entry to the US without "probably cause, reasonable suspicion or warrant."

The whole thrust of the article illustrates how members of an industry body, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, have and potentially can have, their laptops taken without even the remotest excuse by US government agencies.

And one female member told the NYT that had she been waiting for at least a year to get her laptop back.

One of the problems is that no-one has yet to legally challenge what the US government can or cannot do with the information it acquires as the result of such confiscations.

In one instance, the victim in question had been found to be harbouring instances of child pornography.

There's a grave danger, however, that US customs officials will soon realise that devices such as wireless PDAs and top end smartphones have the potential to store as much illicit data as a laptop.

So US citizens face the prospect of their mobile phones not making it past baggage check. It's a daunting prospect. µ

[disciple]

hmm.. study they confiscate yuh laptop , with all yuh bess nrop..lol

[Crixx_Creww]

only applies to us citizens though?

time to start renouncin citizen ship yes

[Saxito Pau]

the US government REALLY starting to get on me nerves now with this... so you can't travel with your laptop now because they can take it for ANY reason?

Crixx, yuh better work US customs... and seize any laptop that look like a gaming laptop (or a real dread smartphone)and keep it for yourself...

[Crixx_Creww]

hmm
make a citizen's arrest in customs and seize de nearest alienware gaming lappy

[Arcmanov]

I will bet you a MONTH's salary that this will extend to ALL visitors coming into the US with smartphones and laptops.  So yuh done know.
Leave your $#!t home, and rent a laptop when yuh reach yes.
Imagine people STILL want to get into the US to live.  hmph!!!

[Synchronomyst]

Imagine people STILL want to get into the US to live.  hmph!!!


Must be that whole standard of living/stronger economy and currency thing...


I don't know, though...my goal is to get to Germany.

[W1nTry]

I don't know, though...my goal is to get to Germany.

Why not Switzerland?

[Arcmanov]

Oh come on Synch, don't be cute.  I meant on top of ALL the abuses of power by state/federal agencies, profiling against people who seem not to be 'normal' (i.e. white and christian), and the general disdain for immigrants, that people would still want to live there.
Of COURSE the standard of living is higher.  Even so, I myself not in a hurry to go there to live.

[Cross]

Canada is the place for me......not flashy and kind of dull but the GNP is phat

[Crixx_Creww]

canada is de flick, men like czar is proof, sicko bw ftw


steups @ standard of living in america

i know people who leave west moorings mansion esque house, for 2 bedroom apt in flikkin brooklyn
wat a total trade down

standard of living??

how many people in trinidad ever get taze in de national library? or uwi library?? what?? nonne?? or ok.. thought so

lol, hwo many times customs ever whole yu up an interogate you for being a wow player in trinidad??
what ? never happen? geze
must be that standard of living again.. lol

[Synchronomyst]

"how many people in trinidad ever get taze in de national library? or uwi library?? what?? nonne?? or ok.. thought so"

Only because they're illegal. Here you just get the s**t beat out of you. That is, of course, until they do legalise tasers. And then you'll get the shit beat out of you PLUS tasered with ABSOLUTELY no chance of legal recourse. Awesome.

"lol, hwo many times customs ever whole yu up an interogate you for being a wow player in trinidad??
what ? never happen? geze"

To be fair, how many times has that happened...in THE HISTORY OF THE FREAKING WORLD!

Besides...a fair amount of people in customs (albeit a minority...and also by extension all protective services) in Trinidad and Tobago can't even SPELL WoW... but what they can stop you for other equally inane things (read: 'because they can'...and do believe they do it. It isn't even spot checks. Just mischief.), lose (read: 'steal') your shit that you've had shipped into the country, and generally be corrupt and incompetent as f**k and abuse their power in entirely similar-to-worse ways (read: 'be corrupt and incompetent as..."...wait...I already typed that...god damned confusing parentheses!) .

...as for me and Germany? I don't know, W1nTry. I love Switzerland...

...but there's an overwhelming beauty I see in rural Germany, which is all across europe...but seem to concentrate there.

I must agree though...Canada is awesome. Cold...but awesome.

SOCIAL HEALTHCARE AND NEGLIGIBLE CRIME RATE FTMFW!

...as for those people who leave Westmoorings to go live Broolkyn...

















AHAHHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA*coughs up blood*

I'm sorry...they're f**king retarded. *wipes tears away*

Brooklyn? LOLOLOLOLOLOL*flatlines and dies*

[W1nTry]

I read that germany is starting to show an insurgence of Neo Nazi hate crimes.... you sure yuh wanna go there?

[Synchronomyst]

It's not just Germany...it's France, Spain, Austria... all of Europe, really. Europe is undergoing this strange regression of recent back into its intolerant ways at the beginning of he 20th century... it's nothing too terrible...but no one can seem to explain it. The entire world is really going down, W1n...

...but...I don't know...I may trade my last seconds to see that sort of beauty.

[W1nTry]

I read its stronly because of Russia. I read they're attacking foreign students that are studying in russia. I also read that Russia is putting serious political and economical pressure on other European countries like Gorgia and those closest to russia... me I wouldn't mind Australia. I have friends and family there and they say its absolutely gorgeous...

[Synchronomyst]

Russia is trying to re-establish themselves as a superpower, so I hear....and with the EU right next door I can see why. As for Australia...you're right... I've a friend movin' there when she gets married. I don't know...australia is like a concentrated version of the world because there's everything there...snow, desert, tropics and so much uninhabited land and so much wildlife. Downside?


Everything in Australia is frikkin' poisonous, W1n! *is scared*

[W1nTry]

LMAO TRUE... the most dangerous animal ALL live in australia.. like the sea wasp... a miniscule Jely fish with near invisible (LONG) tentacles... if yuh come in contact with one, you will go blind, suffer paralysis and die within 3-5 mins... not to mention the venemous snakes, spiders, sharks, etc. Those aside its a GORGEOUS place with rich history (European criminals aside) and yes it has everything! last email I got from my friend, she was working in a ski resort and was learning to snow board...