FYI - Laptops
If you plan to take a laptop out of and back into the country, you might want to read this:
Winging It: Worries about traveling with your laptop | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/30/2008
From the article:
"Gurley recommended that the committee get a privacy-impact assessment from Homeland Security detailing how many laptops have been seized, why they were taken, and how much time it should take before a device is returned to its owner. She also said there should be published policies for protecting the integrity of data on the devices, and the circumstances that would allow other government agencies to see it. But until that happens, I suggest that if you travel internationally, you scrub your laptop clean of anything you don't want doing an electronic dance around Washington."