DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/0958242
Just don’t tell UK Customs & Excise or they’ll want the same rights too. Bet they could make the cost of this back through selling the details they find to marketing firms…
Assuming they don’t take tips from other govt. agencies on data handling and simply leave the laptop on a train on the way home, or in McDonalds, or getting it couriered to the lab for examination, etc.