Border Searches
It looks like our electronic devices can be searched by customs when entering the US. This somewhat violates the 4th amendment, however there is a border exception to the 4th amendment and unless I am wrong you are not officially in the US until you pass customs/border so the amendment would not apply.
A lot of company policies state that you should not be holding confidential information on laptops in the first place, but email, and browser cache can contain that information. To help prevent the information from intranets from being cached you can install JohnnyCache. JohnnyCache lets you enter in a url pattern and will prevent disk and memory based cache from being accessible when viewing a site matching that pattern. I highly recommend you install this extension regardless of your traveling habits.
I am going to be writing additional posts about handling these searches. These posts are going to be directed at protecting corporate information and personal information.
