I would be quite happy to have my laptop perused everytime I passed through customs if it meant catching even just one lowlife scumbag piece of sh1t like the kiddie porn peddlar recently caught in Adelaide. The only dissapointment is the fact that he was not shot in the head and left on a pike-poll to serve as an example.
Perhaps when you bitch and moan about this procedure, you might think of your own children or the children of people who are close to you and ask yourself how you might feel if it was one of them that these animals had taken advantage of.
...ehh, normally people who feel this strongly against something like this are the ones who are the most involved in it.
I suggest you leave your laptop at home when you travel....