Les australiens ont trouvé un nouveau moyen de vous surveiller...

[RedGhost]

Et tout ça, en fouillant votre PC/Mac/PDA/smartphone/etc… à l'aéroport.

Well, I didn’t think it was possible, but government officials may have found a way to slow down the airport screening process even further. According to NEWS.com.au, legislation is actively being looked at in Australia and other countries (including the US) that would allow for officials to inspect laptops and iPods at airport customs and search for pirated music and movies.

There is no word yet as to how they would go about determining whether the music is pirated, or whether a specific threshold of pirated tracks (1 or 1000) would be enough to land you in trouble, but just the fact that the discussions have even gotten this far is fairly disturbing.

A slippery slope

I’m not really what you would call a privacy nut. In all those movies where the government has a machine that monitors every phone call on the planet searching for terms like “assassinate” and “bomb”, I usually think, “Hey, well, That would be cool. I know I’m not planning to kill anyone….(yet). So as long as it catches the bad guy, go for it.” In fact, my life is so ordinary and boring, I really don’t care if the government knows where I am at all times, and God help the poor sap who has the job of reading my e-mails or listening to my phone calls.

However, those are life and death situations we are talking about – with high tech gear being used to prevent terrorism – not something as mundane as stopping a kid from ripping a DVD. Personally, I don’t download music illegally, but I DO have about 1300 CDs I bought that I have ripped, and I would have no way to prove I own those track while standing in line at airport customs. I also do not download movies illegally, but again, I DO rip the movies I own occasionally, and I also rip movies I rent. I know in theory the movie studios say this is illegal, but in my mind I have rationalized this as “what’s the difference if I rent a movie and watch it on my TV, or rent a movie, rip it, and watch it on my iPod?” Either way, I only watch the movie once (I haven’t seen a movie worth keeping in years), and pretty much always delete it to clear off room on my drives. Of course, “in my mind” wouldn’t work as a valid defense in a courtroom.

The problem here (aside from the obvious public embarrassment caused by an airport screener announcing all the porn I have on my laptop in a crowded terminal) is while I can almost rationalize government monitoring of phone calls to thwart terrorism, once this technology, and more importantly, this mindset of government monitoring, is in place in society, the line between what “crimes” the government can and can’t monitor for have a chance to become quite blurry.

Anyone who has taken a plane trip to Florida with the kids and decided to rip their Toy Story and Nemo DVDs to the iPod to keep them quiet on the plane (guilty) will likely think it a bit excessive when they are slapped with $250,000 fine for each of those movies, as well as 3 years in jail. Staying at Disney World is expensive enough as it is. That would nearly double the cost of the trip.

Source :

http://macenstein.com/default/archives/1534

[pankkake]

Les majors une fois de plus aidées par l'argent du contribuable.

En achetant des CD vous financez le lobbyisme pour avoir encore plus de choses de ce genre.

[0100011]

Je n'y croyais pas vraiment mais la cryptographie à usage privé est promise à un bel avenir. Dorénavant je crypte et "j'oublie" le mot de passe quand je passe en douane voire j'utilise des systèmes de deniable cryptography (avec des albums de photos de famille ou des articles scientifiques).

[pankkake]

Allons donc. Si tu cryptes tes données, tu es suspect. Et tu es obligé de donner accès à ton mot de passe - laissant n'importe quel petit fonctionnaire copier toutes conversations intimes, photos nues et comptes bancaires.

(Enfin oui, le "deniable cryptography" c'est à peu près le seul moyen de survivre)

[h16]

Ceci dit, des photos nues de Kassad, il me semble que c'est un crime contre l'humanité et qu'il mérite donc bien la fouille annale complète à l'aéroport pour les avoir prises. Non mais !