TSA Can Now Search Through Your Laptop

[dmspilot00]

Have any mercury fillings?

Why do you ask?

 

[DoinTime]

Anyone stupid enough to take any amount of dope on an aircraft deserves to spend a year in jail....just for being dumb.

How are you suppose to get your dope to where you are going if you don't take it on the da plane?

 

[Andy Neill]

Funny how its the VERY liberal 9th circuit court that allowed this.

Any bets on whether this winds up in the US Supreme Court? They have over-ruled some previous administration policies that were over-reaching in violation of due process.

 

[Sam Snead]

yeah -

if TSA starts confiscating or otherwise viewing your laptop info, we are in for it.

I hope this laptop bull will stay in the Customs arena where as a previous poster put it, you give up pretty much all right to privacy by attempting to cross an international border, especially this one on your way in.

I once had a Canada customs agent read my hotel itinerary because it was in my suitcase.

 

[ImbracableCrunk]

My thoughts exactly

Funny how its the VERY liberal 9th circuit court that allowed this.

You know those "uber-liberals" - always trying to roll back personal liberties.

 

[Flyer1015]

Screw TSA.

Anyone remember that undercover video at ORD that clearly showed a TSA agent STEALING JEWELRY from a bag?!?

Now I know, there's always a few bad apples in any group, and the majority of TSA agents wouldn't do that.

But still, I hate TSA. They are stupid. They have stupid rules, INCONSISTENT rules.

I still don't understand why having an airline pilot ID badge [by itself] isn't enough to let me transport more than 3 ounces of liquid. Apparently, your uniform defines you as an airline pilot. Thank God pilot uniforms can't be bought online through random vendors!

 

[Papa Woody]

Benjamin Franklin once said "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."

He also liked little boys and flew kites in electrical storms.

But you're right.