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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."
Government hired thugs are all the same.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
You mean like Guantanamo bay?
For the same reasons that say, Guantanamo, is apparently not subject to the same laws as the mainland.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.