23rd
The Ninth Circuit held that border agents do not need “reasonable suspicion” in order to search your laptops or other personal electronic devices while crossing the border.
This is a mind-fuck of a decision, although the case will hardly inspire sympathy. The defendant was transporting child porn into the US, but was searched at random (and not on suspicion of anything child-porn related). Custom agents told him to turn on his laptop, log in his password, and then they searched the files on his computer. The Ninth Circuit held that a computer was no different from a suitcase, car or other piece of property that is subject to search at international borders.
Yikes.
*makes a text file to store in the root directory of his laptop which contains the phrase “FUCK YOU, TSA. FUCK YOU AND THE ASHCROFT YOU RODE IN ON.”