summercon 2008 A new tradition of organization (5/30-6/1)

decius [Tom Cross]
For years the courts have held that random, suspicionless searches of citizens by customs officials at border crossings are A-OK. But, today people are traveling with laptops that contain unprecedented amounts of personal correspondence, documents, music, multimedia, and other files. Should customs be able to pour through all of this personal information without any reasonable basis for suspicion? In April the 9th circuit said yes! I say, fuck that! Come watch the supposedly careful legal reasoning of a learned appellant court be completely eviscerated by some long haired computer dude who has never set foot in a law school.