Now I’m not a big political guy, but I am a big gadget freak. Engadget has just reported on a Department of Homeland Security policy that sounds absolutely ridiculous. The government can now confiscate basically any of your digital devices or media at the US border if they even might be a threat to national security. They don’t need to any suspicion of wrongdoing to carry this out either. The information they take from you can also be shared with other government agencies (I guess so that they can easily compile their own music collection ).

This policy seems to be different from the Copyright-related one we talked about in May, but the end result is the same for the traveler: you can get your PMPs, PDAs, and laptops searched and confiscated for as long as the government sees fit. The copyright issue was just a “maybe”, but this current policy from Homeland Security is apparently already in effect.

I’m going to keep my final question here un-political: how bloody scary is this?!

Something tells me it may take a little more than jailbreaking to get your iPod once it’s been taken.

via Engadget

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