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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."
Right heh, if OP has bothered to read, this is all about his friend who works with Wikileaks and the US government. Nothing to do with the TSA.
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>Customs is a legitimate and competent part of the government
Really? Customs have become an arm of the MPAA and RIAA.
Yeah, we need CD-Rom sniffing dogs, not monitoring illegal aliens, not enforcing laws that punish employers that hire illegal aliens at half of minimum wage.
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