The Terror Finance Blog: Searching Laptops at the Border: a Misdirected Controversy

The fact is that the internet has made it eminently possible for virtually anyone to transfer information directly from computer to computer without needing to transport an actual electronic device anywhere. The availability of myriad means to do so, from Google Documents, which essentially saves documents online in a virtual hard drive, to darknets and other such closed networks, means that potential terrorists simply do not need to transport laptops brimming with information with them.

Put another way, it would be the technologically non-savvy terrorists who would still be foolish enough to rely on physical transportation of critical information.