Last Weekend Flying Session
So, last weekend dave and i went flying, since it was so beautiful out. a little windy, but it was really nice out. Anyways, we brought the fleet out, and it was going to be exciting, because i was going to run the gas engine in the big piper for the first time.
so, anyways, running the engine was really cool. we did take a video of it, have to get that off dave.
i changed a mode on our aerial photography camera, and they turned out much better this time.
check these pictures!
on top of all that fun, dave and i pulled some stunts. i took off too close to our “hanger” and well, clipped the tail of the funtana with the super cub.
then, dave was trying new batteries, and well, it ran out, and well, he fell out of the air, from about 10 feet. but, luckily, this is the only damage he sustained.
Overall, it was an awesome flying day! cant wait till tomorrow!
your computer data and crossing borders, its not safe
Something i was not aware of until recently is that not only can the border patrol ask to look at your computer, they can also boot it up and search its contents. ive even heard of laptops being seized. anyways, cory doctorow over at boingboing posted a good quote about the options you have to protect yourself.
If you encrypt your hard drive with strong crypto, it will be prohibitively expensive for CBP to access your confidential information. This answer is imperfect for two reasons—one is practical, the other is technological.
Practically, the government has not disclosed CBP’s laptop search practices, despite our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for these documents. We don’t know what a border patrol agent will do when confronted with an encrypted machine. One possibility is that the agent will simply give up and let the traveler pass with her belongings. Other possibilities are that the agent will turn the traveler and her machine away at the border, or that he will seize the laptop and allow the traveler to continue on. I suspect that on most occasions, CBP agents confronted with encrypted or password-protected data tell the owner to enter the password or get turned away, and the owner, eager to continue her voyage or to return home, simply complies.
If you don’t want to comply, CBP cannot force you to decrypt your data or give over your password. Only a judge can force you to answer questions, and then only if the Fifth Amendment does not apply. While no Fifth Amendment right protects the data on your laptop or phone, one federal court has held that even a judge cannot force you to divulge your password when the act of revealing the password shows that you are the person with access to or control over potentially incriminating files. See In re Boucher, 2007 WL 4246473 (D. Vt. November 29, 2007).
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