US Blocks Entry For German Black Hat Presenter

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.

Comments

We don't need no education!

[geoff lane]

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.

Re:Not A Good Sign

[Iron Condor]

[...] 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.

h1-b visa

[delvsional]

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

Failed the test

[Joebert]

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

Re:Don't Go

[Library Spoff]

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! :)