Re: stupid politics
Most real IETFers (especially the old guard) have some serious issues with the idea of US Border performing arbitrary copy of their devices, retaining their devices for up to 5 days and being required to supply all passwords to their devices.
I hope you do realize that Canadian Border Services Agency has virtually the same search and seizure powers as their US counterparts. In particular, they do not require a warrant to examine any and all of your electronic devices, and can demand that you provide password(s) needed to unlock access to the data. They are also within their rights to retain any of your devices for further examination, copy any of your data, and share it with other agencies as they see fit.
We Canadians may be more polite about our Big Brother spiel, but we are very much inside the US security perimeter, and it shows: Even our trusted-traveller program is being run by the U.S. Homeland Security. By default, you should really assume that any data on you obtained by any branch of Canadian government is automatically shared with the Americans.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
