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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
2. Do you agree that in the digital age, contraband can be in a digital form and kept on computers?? Yes or No.
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Yes. It
can be. The question is what should be done about it.
The Internet makes it unnecessary to actually keep digital contraband on a computer while traveling. It's entirely too easy to stash it on a server you have network access to, possibly in encrypted form, and download it from the server when you are across the border in your destination.
So while you
can access random laptops at the border in a customs check, looking for contraband, the question is whether you
should, and whether the results are worth the bother. (And what, precisely, are you looking for, and how will you know it if you find it? For that matter, who defines "contraband"?)
Offhand, I doubt it. You
may snag some contraband. You
will annoy large numbers of perfectly innocent people for questionable reason.
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Dennis