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So if you plan to take your laptop it is better to upload the disk image and buy a new one in the states? I'm assuming the TSA can force a foreigner to unlock and then copy the disk.

Wow this is sick:

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/06/10-of-tsas-worst-ac...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2014/07/07/th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba030UmbkCo

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/2011/05/nottheonion-tsa-sea...

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US customs officers can, upon attempted border entry, search and seize any baggage of any US or foreign citizen without a warrant or probable cause.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

The last paragraph is especially creepy. You can be treated as an animal, whenever they please.

TSA has nothing to do with entry into the country—you don't encounter them on arrival unless you have an onward flight.

CBP handles immigration and customs.

A simple web search shows that that isn't true.

http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/travel-to-the-usa/g...

http://www.imore.com/tsa-will-require-devices-be-charged-int...

http://traveltips.usatoday.com/tsa-rules-international-trave...

I've entered the US through SeaTac, MSP, ATL, and SFO. In each of those, I never encountered TSA checkpoints until a connecting flight. If it is the final destination of your flight, you do not interact with TSA at all (unless you scream bomb in the airport or something).

Agreed. I've entered via SFO, SJC, ATL, JFK, LGA, MIA, HOU, and DFW and it's only CBP at the customs & immigration check... then onward to baggage rescan & TSA security checkpoint.

What does your post have to do with bagpipes?

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