U.S. Customs and Border Protection

[Jeremy Henty]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:12:12PM +0100, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:

> I would  guess they are certainly  capable of copying  the data, but
> making a  mirror image of  a hard drive  is a lengthy  process [...]
> you possibly won't be able to prevent them from having a good browse
> and make  copies of  whatever they feel  is relevant,  especially if
> they have nothing better to do with their time.

AIUI  they   now  reserve   the  right  to   take  away   your  laptop
*indefinitely* and pass it onto *anyone*, so the fact that copying the
data  is laborious  is irrelevant.   (Please correct  me if  I'm wrong
about this.)

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty