Myriad international travelers are being greeted with the phrase “show me your laptop” at U.S. borders. Too many, indeed, for Robert X. Cringely’s comfort. “As security wonk and former federal prosecutor Mark Rasch notes, the dangers from this kind of digital body cavity search are far reaching,” Cringe reports in Borderline illegal: Your laptop is not your own. Gripe Line guru Ed Foster also wrote about the same topic earlier this week, in Laptop searches and insecure borders, essentially seeing fit to ask, even though security is a top priority “does that mean when entering the country we must all submit to a search not only of what’s in our luggage, but what’s in our heads?” To Cringe, it all comes down to yet another question. “What do you trust more, the US Constitution or the US government? When in doubt, I tend to side with the founding fathers … they enacted laws that put the rights of individuals on at least a par with the rights of the state.” Security