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		Tomte on Jan 1, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searche... How do they recognize you as an alien? At the border, sure, but inside the country?

tptacek on Jan 1, 2014 [–]

Inside. Not at the border. I'm presuming it had to do with me being foreign but maybe it's something even more insidious.

Tomte on Jan 2, 2014 | [–]

My thinking was: how do they single you out?

But I guess it was speaking English without an awful accent. :-)

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