Search: Home Bugtraq Vulnerabilities Mailing Lists Jobs Tools Beta Programs
On the Border
Mark Rasch, 2008-03-20

Recently, I was going through an airport with my shoes, coat, jacket, and belt off as well as with my carry-on bag, briefcase, and laptop all separated for easy inspection. I was heading through security at the Washington D.C., Ronald Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, or "National" as we locals call it. As I passed through the new magnetometer which gently puffed air all over my body -- which to me seems to be a cross between a glaucoma test and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -- a TSA employee absent-mindedly asked if he could "inspect" my laptop computer. While the inspection was cursory, the situation immediately gave me pause: What was in my laptop anyway?

Comments Mode:
On the Border 2008-03-20
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: On the Border 2008-03-24
Anonymous
On the Border 2008-03-21
Anonymous
On the Border 2008-03-21
Dr. Neal Krawetz
On the Border 2008-03-31
Anonymous
Mirroring is theft. Use the DMCA on them. 2008-04-01
Jim
On the Border 2008-04-02
A Canadian
On the Border 2008-04-04
Anonymous
On the Border 2008-04-10
Ichinin
On the Border 2008-04-10
Anonymous (1 replies)
Re: On the Border 2008-04-24
Anonymous
Agree. All such searches should be prohibited. Copying the contents is plain theft. Consider that there are many trojans that can copy porno and pornolinks to your computer without your knowledge. How about being a member of botnet? It may be that you even do not know what is in your computer. Security vendor Panda says that they found out that about 72% of computers having updated antivirus and firewall still have somekind of spyware/malware on them. Last but not least is the question why has not the organizations that speak for the liberty or for the freedom of speach not reacted?

[ reply ]

Link to this comment: http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/columns/469/35031#35031




 

Privacy Statement
Copyright 2009, SecurityFocus