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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, there goes all rationale for me to live in the US.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pheer6224]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 11:52AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[..GOOD, don't want you and your ilk here...stay where you are and keep away]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBain]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2008 7:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Center for American Progress Action Fund has a 'Take Action' site for this, with a petition to CBP to conduct and publish a privacy impact assessment: <a href="http://handsoffmylaptop.org/" rel="nofollow">http://handsoffmylaptop.org/</a><br><br>And of course, write your member of Congress, etc.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[brownpau]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 12:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[If you don't want it to last, WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS!  That's what I will be doing.  This is a major infringement on our rights. and it can be stopped by an act of congress.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RBaugh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 12:34PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmmm did I miss the memo about the US being a dictatorship?<br><br>You expect this kind of crap in North Korea, China Cuba not the good old US of A.<br><br>We are fighting to BS wars to insure others have rights, yet we continue to take rights away from our own people...thansk GW]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 1:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[ Looks like I'm going to FedEx myself my laptop disk drives,<br>cell phone memory, and flash memory before heading home.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pecnj]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 8:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Re: RBaugh...its too late, not enough people give a damn. It's a shame but the US is getting less and less free everyday....the govt wont stop doing thid...until maybe Jan 22 'o8 or so.....vote for change folks!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sin D Fetish]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 2:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Everyone still needs to write those letters demanding it be changed, if we don't, it won't stop.  Let them know we are paying attention and it is not acceptable.  Thinking it is too late or that there is nothing we can do is apathetic and exactly what they want us to do.  Stand up for our rights people, before they take them all away and insert little chips in us!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheryl]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 2:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Before u know it u will not be allowed to leave your home without a govt document stating so.This is one more way to whore out our freedom. If the govt would worry about things that matter like education, housing, food cost<br>to name a few. They wouldnt be so busy trying to pick a part the soul of freedom. Freedom much like I will parish from this earth in do time.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bigshot ownage]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 3:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[regarding we cannot leave without a govt document?<br><br>we are already deep in that state<br>we must have an ID<br>a passport<br>drivers license<br>credit card<br>social security<br>insurance for car<br>tags for car<br>medical insurance card<br>credit card, in case one gets mugged, and cannot pay with cash<br>or vice versa<br>and many other ways<br>where we cannot live, breathe, walk, talk<br>move freely<br>think freeely<br>write freely<br> or do anything,<br>without paying for it<br>and the govt<br>keeping a tab<br>every cell phone call can be and is used<br>to track one down<br>trace andreconstruct the movements<br>bank accounts, and money transactions used to track down activity<br>every time we flush they can find out<br>every time we turn on a light<br>the srteet cameras<br>can keep millions of photographs, in file<br>and any combination, used to suspect, arrest, even kill[claim it was purely accidental]<br>crs record all driving activities<br>when one flies ,by air<br>all external and internal organs are checked,<br>touched, fondled,<br>x rays[items in search stolen, and never replaced,ask any trveller, what is lost and how it can never be recovered]<br>all are finger printed<br>eye scans are common<br>DNA taken at will or  any politically elected judge will force it out of people<br><br>always its for our protection<br><br>TV was about to be used to watch us 2 ways<br>medical information to be carried withus,<br>and checked, copied, distorted, disseminated at will<br><br>genes tested to identify and warn people not to insure, so that<br>the people cannot get insurance,as it maybedeemed too risky.<br>only insure the young, very healthy<br>make money<br>exclude any risk, and it is done legally<br><br>we can cut the taxes by refusing to renew<br>and force some to expire<br>reduce law enforcement,so that most, if not all laws are renderd redundant<br>try to enforce laws, from old days<br>that protect our freedom<br>the human should have his/her home, car, personal information<br>as totally private<br>not to be released<br>for any purpose<br>not under any pressure,and not before  or during any information gathering[then it is too late,even if it means miscarriage of justice or allow unjust laws , not to be applied]<br>make a list of unjust laws<br><br>force candidates<br> to agree to enforce<br>and if they fail after 90 days in power<br>automatically recall them<br>and let the lext onetake over<br>and repeat the process[broken promises, lose the power, lose benefits, gets automatically recalled]<br>just like service<br>if its bad<br>the tip  is denied<br> or payment refused]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[drbdes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 2nd 2008 2:35AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[My concern with that policy is not only these technologies mentioned in the article. It would include portable teledevices for the deaf. It could include possibly electronic devices that would assist the blind and other handicapped people. I admit that I am deaf.  Out of the Bible, "Thou shalt not curse the deaf nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD" --Leviticus 19:14  Originally, it was part of the Law given by God through Moses to the Jews at Mount Sinai. We and God know that the deaf and the blind are part of the diversity of handicaps. There is a principle in terms of treating the handicapped not only the deaf or the blind or deaf and blind, I think.  For those who does not know what a TDD is, it is something like a keyboard with a small screen that a deaf person can use a regular telephone with or use the existing telephone lines. Anyway, should an agent seize the electronic device used by handicapped people, it could make their lives more difficult. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 3:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Watch the first Matrix movie and wake up!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[pissed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 4:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[guess what. the minute everyone decided it was ok to tell other people what to do in the interest of their health/ security/ etc. ie that you do not own your own bodies- then why would you think you own your 'stuff'?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nic]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 2nd 2008 5:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[Thats so absurd, I'm outraged that they can confiscate your $1000+ electronic device without explanation.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Erectile Dysfunction]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2008 5:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[wake up bigshot ownage u already have too have govt id ie ( id cards and driver license ) its only going too get worse until we wake up and tell these jerks they work for us ie (we the people)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[charles patterson]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 2nd 2008 1:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[since the Patriot Act was passed,the government can confiscate anything and claim it's for the sake of national security.these are the same tactics used by the Communist.isn't America great!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frenchy Adams]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 4th 2008 6:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[<br><br>...bailed your French butt out of 3 wars now and kept you free from the Soviet tyranny for another 50+....there's gratitude for ya...should have let you stay under the Nazis<br><br>..oh btw--camembert sucks as a chesse!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBain]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 21st 2008 8:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[What the? This is the first I've heard about "indefinitely keeping electronics" I'm pretty sure nothing gets deleted later, there's data stored here and there. The new form of identity theft. Unless someone is specifically a suspect (probable cause) or there is a warrant, I don't agree with electronic files being searched. With technology changing so quickly, rights to privacy should specifically mention electronic data.   ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[XSemperIdem5]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 19th 2008 5:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on U.S. Authorities Can Now Seize Laptops Arbitrarily, Indefinitely]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/01/u-s-authorities-can-now-seize-laptops-arbitrarily-indefinitely/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is outrageous.   What if information vital for your business is on the laptop?   I have lived abroad and take my laptop with me everywhere I go due to the private nature of the information.    I dont think I have to worry about the foreign government hassling me, but now the US Homeland Security Department is playing the role of the computer thief.   <br>     I hope that this article is overhyped and the Homeland Security boys just need a draconian ruling to protect themselves when they come along a Al Qaeda computer.    I think Al Qaeda and the likes will put their information on a flash drive or, even better, send it along by email to a computer already in the USA.    Homeland Security has enough problems without exposing itself to lawsuits by innocent citizens who have been victimized by rogue agents of Homeland Security.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[juan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 27th 2008 12:14AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
