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US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter

Posted by kdawson on from the officious-nonsense dept.

bushwhacker2000 alerts us to the dilemma of Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher who has been a fixture at the annual Black Hat security conference. Dullien was denied entry into the US on his way to this year's conference. Dullien, a German reverse-engineering expert known in hacker circles as "Halvar Flake," said he was blocked from entering the US on the technicality that he had (years ago) signed a contract with Black Hat as an individual, not as his company. Customs agents said he would need an H1-B visa to perform the contracted two days of training at Black Hat, and put him on the next plane back to Germany.

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  1. WRONG VISA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    He had the wrong fucking visa, why are there so many people here who hate the US saying ZOMG HE GOT DEPORTZ0R3D FCUK THE UNITED STATES I HATE AMERICANS? Big fucking deal people, it happens every day. You just get all inflamed over the stupidest things. Now go back to being afraid that the evil Americans are going to send you to Guantanamo because you picked your nose in the customs line. Fucktards.

  2. DMCA by spoonist · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well at least he wasn't denied entry and/or sent to Gitmo on DMCA grounds.

  3. We don't need no education! by geoff+lane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank god, the US has no need of foreigners coming in and teaching. If that kind of crazy idea caught on, all hell would break loose. The population might become sufficiently educated to start to question the silly rules.

  4. Re:Not A Good Sign by Iron+Condor · · Score: 4, Funny

    [...] What's the story going to be? That Halvar can only do training in India, and China, and in Europe? Yes, that sounds like a wonderful idea. Everyone else's code gets more secure while ours rots on the vine.[...]

    Given that all US software development will be outsourced to India and China anyways, it makes sese to give these folks an advantage in learning about software security.

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  5. h1-b visa by delvsional · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should have just handed him a fucking ID card. That's what they're doing for all the rest of the illegal immigrants.

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  6. Failed the test by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Some hacker this guy is, can't even socially engineer his way into the country.

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  7. Re:Don't Go by Library+Spoff · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure what's cooler -
    The 3 digit /. Id or the fact you were a named defendant in the DeCSS debunkle!

    I bow to you sir! :)

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