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Contraband? Contraband?!??

If one wished to bring digital contraband into the US, why oh tell me why would anyone ever bring it physically over the border on a machine?!?

We invented a network of networks that makes this rather easier to securely do quite some years ago. :@ why would anyone think that contraband-based searches make sense here?

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Just to be clear, I don't think USGOV's continued campaign to obliterate privacy is good.

However, if you do want to implement a total surveillance policy this isn't completely stupid, because it helps fill in one of the NSA's blind spots.

Meanwhile, people are using the US Postal Service to mail drugs across the country since forever.

Nobody concerned cares about your use of drugs, though. Exceptions are made if they need money for a program that Congress refuses to fund, though, when they'll make sure that their man's shipments of drugs will get into the country safely.

Three words: people are dumb.

Or there is another reason for such activities, and “contraband” is just a disguise.

Including those who make and enforce the laws.

I would have thought that this fairly obvious counterpoint would have been brought up by someone somewhere along the line before this decision was released, though.

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