I don't like getting searched either. A long time back, when I was thirteen and moved back to the US with my family after living in France for a year, we had t

I don't like getting searched either. A long time back, when I was thirteen and moved back to the US with my family after living in France for a year, we had to do the full-on customs interview. They let us take our Mac home, but we had to come back to the customs office a week later to prove that we'd purchased it in the US. Fortunately, computers aren't exactly considered exotic and expensive things anymore. I had a little apprehension taking my laptop over to Europe and back, mainly because it would feel very uncomfortable to have someone open up my computer and click around. And I really don't need a lecture from a customs agent about my lack of unit tests, heh. But ultimately, I'd guess that almost all business travelers carry a laptop these days, and since electronic communication doesn't need to travel physically on a laptop anyway, it seems like one of the lowest priorities for a customs agent. It's easy to get in a huff, but ultimately, many of them actually want to do their jobs well, and wasting time on laptop searches would probably be a major distraction from what they view as their real work, anyway.