ACLU suing the government to stop border laptops/electronics searches

Border searches have a lower standard of probable cause, but as our personal electronics contain more and more personal and intimate information, this is not good. I would definitely sanitize my laptop if I were going to/returning from a foreign country.

I don't have anything to hide, but that doesn't give you the right to go poking through it. And if someone says otherwise, ask them for their bank account numbers and the last ten years of their tax returns and see what they say.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/laptop-border-searches/

Documents from the author of 'Seduction of the Innocent' to be opened to the public

Frederic Wertham was a psychiatrist who was hung up on violent imagery inspiring young minds to commit acts of violence, and his biggest targets were comic books and television. His 1954 book, Seduction of the Innocent, became the basis of a congressional investigation, which resulted in the comic publishers creating a self-censoring organization, the Comic Code Authority.

Wertham later tried to reform television but had no success there, he couldn't even get his book published on TV's influence on children.

http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/08/papers-of-comic-book-villain-open-at-library/

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

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/1624221/Library-of-Congress-Opens-Records-of-Anti-Comic-Book-Shrink