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Came across an article in Guardian

Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you’re entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs and Border Patrol has not published any rules regarding this practice, and I and others have written a letter to Congress urging it to investigate and regulate this practice.

But the US is not alone. British customs agents search laptops for pornography. And there are reports on the internet of this sort of thing happening at other borders, too. You might not like it, but it’s a fact. So how do you protect yourself?

It seems that nowadays more and more of the government are worried about the information leaking. It has become more crucial as compared to last time.
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Facebook might be compromising your privacy, if you have an account with it. It has been exposed by the BBC’s technology programme Click on the security flaw as reported by Spencer Kelly.

It is says that MySpace have far better security standard when it comes to protecting the users information.

Morally, Facebook has acted naively
Paul Docherty, Technical Director of Portcullis Security

Hence it reminds me of the story from Reader’s Digest on the identity theft.

BBC’s Click on Facebook

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We have only had the phone for a few hours but we needed to get inside its casing, what follows is our dissection of the Apple iPhone. Please note that we’re doing this so you are not tempted to on your recent $500/$600 expenditure, while it is quite possible to take apart using easy to find tools we’d recommend against it as it will undoubtedly void your warranty and will most likely mar up

How does the iPhone packaging looks like?

How they dissect the iPhone

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