@37 Thanks, it is nice to put a face to the name.

He is, however, a complete disgrace to the 5 grand worth of Paul Reed Smith and Mesa Boogie his parents bought him. That picture should go on rockandrollconfidential.com's hall of douchebags.

Dear world:

On behalf of my batshit crazy government, I apologize.

Yours,

An American.

This tempts me to buy an old laptop, create a vanilla install and use that when traveling abroad, keeping no personal/vital data on it at all.

Given my cheeky nature, I would then put an encrypted disk image on the desktop named "goatsexlove" and have within that 3 more encrypted disk images, each layered within the next, and at the root of all these images a text file containing choice swear words describing what I think of their practices with laptops.

I'm not sure I would give the passwords to the encrypted images up or not in that case, but I am leaning toward not. Seems much funnier for them to waste their time on this only to get insulted after weeks/months/years of trying to get into my faux-bestiality-laden encrypted files.

By the time they get down to reading the text file I'd probably have been shipped off to gitmo.

Interesting hypothetical brought up by a friend I was discussing this with:

What if you were an IT security professional and your job was to research attacks/viruses etc. and you loaded up the laptop with every virus/trojan/worm you could think of, and then fully disclosed to them the dangers in their copying data from your machine before the inspected it? How fast would those viruses fly through government computers? Would they hold you liable and charge you if you disclosed fully your job, your reason for having an infected machine, and gave full warning to them?

My bet is that it would end poorly for you, but at least it would throw egg on their faces.

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