Today I came across a headline about this fella from my home town Dallas, Texas which apparently he got busted for having a load of cash and some rather menacing information in his laptop hard drive and it wasn't porn, here is detail from the Associate Press.
A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying more than $78,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide.
Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court.When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage, they found an additional $59,000. When they scrolled through his laptop, they said they found the mysterious files. At a court hearing Wednesday, Dinssa was ordered held in custody until at least until Monday at the request of prosecutors. Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonid Feller argued Dinssa was a potential risk to the community and federal agents want to get a warrant to search his computer more thoroughly, The Detroit News reported Thursday. U.S. Magistrate Donald Scheer approved Feller's request to detain him. Dinssa, who is from Dallas, arrived in Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam and was headed for Phoenix, Feller said. He is charged with concealing more than $10,000 in his luggage, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, the Detroit Free Press reported.
It is tragic that poor fella might has been mistaken for a terrorist, because for all we know he might just felt like going to blow some change in Vegas or perhaps heading off to an Islamic wedding and I know they do give a generous amount of cash in those kind of occasion. Though to many people who've read this article might be terrifying about the fact that the home grown terrorism is on the rise in the Western countries, especially in Europe where social prejudice against Islamic community is still being tolerated as a collateral damage by their respective government. As for United States where many corporate workers are using laptop on their daily means to support their livelihood this has become a rising concern among the regular IT folks like me. To further elaborate this, here is the article about the United States custom will now have the rights to seize any laptop equipment without your permission at the port of entry for an indefinite detainment.
Laptops Have No Right To Privacy At U.S. Borders
Until recently, their biggest concern was that someone might steal the laptop. But now there’s a new worry — that the laptop will be seized or its contents scrutinized at United States customs and immigration checkpoints upon entering the United States from abroad.
So what does all these related to any person who lives are depending on carrying their electronic devices for a legitimate reason ? Well you're all getting screwed royally big time in the name of "War on Terror". First we all have to give up our freedom of expression and the Constitution protection of the American citizens because very low tech terrorist thugs ram two planes into the Word Trade tower. Despite promise of progress on the War on Terrorism the US government has invested over a trillion dollar on high tech gadgetries and man power with an obscene war drama of Shock and Awe, still at the end of day most of terrorist around the world from September 11th to the bombing of the London subway all the terrorist didn't even bother to carry a damm laptop to carry out their successful attacks. Obviously the folks at the Homeland Security are spending too much time watching 24 contemplating the next high-tech attack from the people that hiding out in places barely has a descent phone connection in some godforsaken desserts.
Alright let's entertain the US government the thought of technologically advance terrorist for a movement. Imagine there was this Middle Eastern second generation immigrant who was educated in the Ivy League college had the American dream of life, however one day he went back to his homeland and mysteriously got brain washed to be a jihadist bending on destroying the infidels in the West. Most of you might think this idea might only be viable in the realm of the Hollywood fantasy but I can assure that a significant amount of destructive intelligent scholar who are aiding the top terrorist organization in the world, majority of them happen to be US Ivy League college graduates. And if god forbids he is thinking about carrying very important information about the plans and implementations, he would never even bother to be stupid enough having them on his damm laptop heading back to the States ! Here is only three items that he needs to carry out his devious plan of knowledge transfers and they only involve in freely available open source technology.(Don't worry I'm not going to show you the DYI process I'm not a supporter of those fucking nut case)
1. Google - he could just easily turn his Gmail account into a digital storage medium which he will have the ability to access them anywhere in the word for free.
2. Stegonagraphy -There are plenty of free available tools online which can turn any documents and schematic and hide them completely out of sight in any pictures and video files.
3. Airfare - once all the digital cotent has been hiding in the internet cloud(which ironically could be at some server farms in the US), that mentally sadistic individual cold just easily fly back to the United States with his student visa pretending that he just came back from his pilgrimage vacation visiting in the Middle East. Or heck he could just have his buddies in America carry out the coordination by just a mere download on another receiving end.
So Now I hope that you all would understand the very nature of terrorism it has nothing to do with who got the best electronic equipments or the most precise GPS guided bombs the very idea of all destructive force against a society is base upon an improvise creative tactics. Instead of the Homeland security twisting their thumbs on methodology of scrutinizing hightech detection pattern of a potential terrorist by either randomly seize some tourist laptop just because he just got a little nervous twitch. 
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