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Tor Developer Detained At US Border, Pressed On Wikileaks
suraj.sun writes with this news from CNET: "A security researcher involved with the Wikileaks Web site — Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based programmer for the online privacy protection project called Tor — was detained by US agents at the border for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday to attend a hacker conference. He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon about the Tor Project. Appelbaum, a US citizen, arrived at the Newark, New Jersey, airport from Holland Thursday morning, was taken into a room, frisked and his bag was searched. Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained. They asked questions about Wikileaks, asked for his opinions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and asked where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is, but he declined to comment without a lawyer present, according to the sources. He was not permitted to make a phone call, they said." Appelbaum told me that he just spoke at length with The New York Times, and quipped that his Defcon talk about Tor was "just fine, until the FBI showed up"; this post will likely be updated with more details.
Update: 08/02 03:59 GMT by T : Here's the NYT's coverage.
>>>It's crazy...If you come to the EU you just land
Maybe you too would have tight security if the EU has some major buildings, like the Paris Eiffel Tower and Ministry of Defence, blown to the ground by terrorists. As happened to us on 9/11.
I can easily imagine the MEPs standing in Parliament, having a fit, and then passing something similar to the Uniting Europe by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (EU PATRIOT) Act. After all, you Europeans have done it in the past with strong border controls and fingerprinting.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
What is this 'USian' of what you speak? Is that some subtle jibe such as calling an Austrailian citizen a 'sheep fucking aboriginal killer'?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
If you were trying to invent a term that includes people only from a single nation in the North and South American continents, rather than being a a douchebag, you would have said Americans of the United States. But we know you're just being a douchebag. Or a sheep fucker. The choice is yours.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon