High-Tech Gadgets Can Pose Problems At Mexican Border 447
TechnologyResource writes "Going across the border will be a more 'interesting' experience since Customs and Border Protection will now be checking laptops, digital cameras, cell phones and any other electronics on your person or in your vehicle. It's not a new authority, according to Angelica De Cima, Office of Public Affairs Liaison 'They've always had the right to inspect your person, vehicle, baggage, anything on you. Nothing has changed from before,' De Cima said."
Encryption! (Score:1, Funny)
open these disks first mofo (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I predict... (Score:2, Funny)
Pulp Friction (Score:5, Funny)
Captain Koons: The way your dad looked at it, this iPod was your birthright. He'd be damned if any US Border agents gonna put their greasy hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this iPod up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the iPod. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the iPod to you.
Re:I predict... (Score:5, Funny)
I predict that you need a verb!
I mean, this isn't grammar nazi'ing. I'm genuinely interested -- what exactly were you trying to say?
will be?
will question?
will throw?
will hump?
will tazer?
will shoot?
will have a tea party?
will rave with?
will WHAAAAAT?!?!?!
If you want to get really personal (Score:5, Funny)
Heck checking your laptop is nothing, they can probe up your ass if they really want to!
Re:...and then a quick call... (Score:5, Funny)
Those are some very close friends.
Re:Security Theater at its finest (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, I think security on air craft would be paid for and determined by the airlines.
That way the market can chose how secure to be.
Maybe a pass on security if you get on naked, eating a pork sausages and say 'There is no God'.
That would increase security immeasurably.
Re:Pulp Friction (Score:4, Funny)
It was the Touch.
Re:...and then a quick call... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I predict... (Score:2, Funny)
Pretend it's a madlib.
Re:information smuggling? (Score:5, Funny)
"He said anyone coming across could be a terrorist, drug dealer or someone trying to carry or take information out of the country by hiding it in a smaller device."
Why not just FTP it. Or hide a microSD card inside a cake? It should bake okay, the chip inside gets put under higher temps than the inside of cupcake when they place them on a PCB. The plastic on a uSD might melt a little, but I suspect the information will still be there.
There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. A headline regarding mass-awareness of a certain avian variety. [wikipedia.org]
Re:Security Theater at its finest (Score:5, Funny)
Bacon-loving nudist atheists fly for free on my airline!
Re:open these disks first mofo (Score:1, Funny)
"autonuke"
Re:Security Theater at its finest (Score:5, Funny)
Ahhh, Sunday morning traditions at my house.
THE MAN! (Score:4, Funny)
It's just a way for the man to try and control you.
Re:information smuggling? (Score:5, Funny)
No need to frost. Just bake the cake, insert the microSD, and _eat_ the cake. Then if they start searching people thoroughly enough to detect the card, they _really_ deserve to find it.
Re:Security Theater at its finest (Score:5, Funny)
And not too bacon loving.
Re:information smuggling? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Going or coming? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, you guys kept hassling us about how lax our border security is so we stepped it up a little. You're welcome.
Re:information smuggling? (Score:2, Funny)
The solution is simple. The second someone from border control looks at you funny, rip the SD card from your device and swallow it. They'll be SO confused when they finally recover an SD card with a dozen pictures of scenery.
The up-side is that after a few dozen "recoveries" of memory cards with nothing even remotely bad on them, they'll decide the policy isn't worth all the poop and ditch it!
Now THAT'S taking one for the team.
Re:information smuggling? (Score:3, Funny)
searching people thoroughly enough to detect the card
Avi: Tony.
Bullet Tooth Tony: What?
Avi: Look in the dog.
Bullet Tooth Tony: What do you mean "look in the dog?"
Avi: I mean open him up.
Bullet Tooth Tony: It's not as if it's a tin of baked beans! What do you mean "open him up"?
--
BMO
Re:information smuggling? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pulp Friction (Score:4, Funny)
Re:'Going Across the Border' (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Doesn't even need that... (Score:5, Funny)
i forgot, which is greater: a brazillion or a guatamellion?
Re:...and then a quick call... (Score:4, Funny)
Blue corvette with three gringos heading south
Those are some very close friends.
So, you're saying they're three amigos?
Great!! (Score:3, Funny)
Time for my goatcex screen saver, and the tubgirl desktop. If they barf before they finish searching, do i win?
Re:Going or coming? (Score:3, Funny)
Should've told them you were there to avoid being shipped to Iraq. They would've put you up in a four star hotel and given you a debit card with $5000 on it.
Re:information smuggling? (Score:2, Funny)
Would-be Terrorist: They'll never find it, mwahahahaha!
Border Agent: Aha! The cake is a lie!
Would-be Terrorist: Curses, foiled again!
Re:information smuggling? (Score:4, Funny)
This is just like what a friend who lives in Paris used to do with subway fare inspectors (over there, they can ask for your ticket at any time). Whenever their gang sees a bunch of fare inspectors, one starts to run, and, of course, the inspectors go after him and ignore the rest of the gang. Whenever they catch him, they ask "your ticket, please", and he shows them as a matter of course.
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang that cheated is far away...
Re:You call that a corvette? (Score:5, Funny)
Topped [wikipedia.org]
Re:YRO??!! (Score:3, Funny)
The real difference is going to be when you cross the border driving. There's been waaay too many documented cases of people buying guns (and I mean big guns, like assault rifles) legally in the US with their God-given 2nd ammendment right and smuggling them to the drug cartels here.
Searching "laptops, digital cameras, cell phones and any other electronics on your person or in your vehicle" will stop the gun runners how?.....
Apparently compression has made an awful lot of progress lately.
On the back trip they'll obviously be looking for mexican_family.tar.gz