Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized

Orome1 writes "The well-known whitehat hacker and security researcher who goes by the handle Moxie Marlinspike has recently experienced firsthand the electronic device search that travelers are sometimes submitted to by border agents when entering the country. He was returning from the Dominican Republic by plane, and when he landed at JFK airport, he was greeted by two US Customs officials and taken to a detention room where they kept him for almost five hours, took his laptop and two cell phones and asked for the passwords needed to access the encrypted material on them."

Comments

Re:4th

[slack_justyb]

You're at a border fourth amendment doesn't apply. I know a lot of people who don't like that idea. My suggestion is any one of the following, 1) Don't leave the country. 2) Don't return to the country. 3) Sneak your way in/out of the country. America's borders have gone to shit. Every in the country is pissed about illegal border crossers and the government is putting pressure on the border agents to do something about it, so they have, piss every single person off to the point that I don't think I'll ever pay the outrageous fee for crossing the American border.

Re:First Post

[hairyfeet]

Hey moron mods, name ONE fucking thing in the above post that is a "troll". look up "US Government VS Wikileaks" to see how many millions and man hours have been wasted on the "evil hacker" to see first hand what the US government thinks of anyone with that title. Did you forget the Russian that couldn't even present at a conference because he would have been imprisoned for making "hacker tools"? Apparently so, as the US government has had a loooong history of hatred for anyone labeled hacker, going back to Kevin Mitnik.

As for the second, please explain how in the fuck you get labeled a "white hat" for showing up at black hat conferences and showing everyone how to MITM SSL? This guy is NOT CONTACTING the designers first and warning them like Kaminsky did, which makes him a black hat in mine and most others books. This "white hat" label is total bullshit made to make us feel sorry for another "penetration tester" which if you have ever worked security is about as wanted as crackheads to "test" your building by throwing rocks at the windows and trying to kick down your doors.

Re:Finishing the story

[drinkypoo]

so by googling you are now proven to be a total fucking idiot?

thanks for proving my point quite nicely; it's not using google, it's what you do with it.