Attention, everyone who enters the US (including US citizens):

Homeland Security now claims the right to search and make permanent copies of "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form", even if they don't suspect you of anything.

That includes cell phones, books, diaries, laptops, journals, iPods, flash drives, and pocket trash.

If you absolutely have to come to the US, make sure you're bringing nothing that you wouldn't want to see copied in its entirety and spread around to other departments for decryption, translation, and analysis.

Nakashima, Ellen. "Travelers' laptops may be detained at border". Washington Post, August 1, 2008, p. A01.