I think the worst part of this is the fact that there is a lot of people who have to travel with laptops with potentially sensitive data (myself included), and it is just fundamentally wrong to let the laptops get out of your sight. I can't trust that my laptop is being handled properly going across borders and potentially could be putting people at risk. Because of the nature of my work I also need to bring the confidential information of my employer with me just to debug the problem in the first place, but by the nature of my work I could have accidentally contaminated it and not realized it.

I am surprised that consulting firms haven't already gotten onto the warpath.