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US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com)
People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country's top domestic security chief said. From a report on NBC: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress on Tuesday the measure was one of several being considered to vet refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority countries. "We want to get on their social media, with passwords: What do you do, what do you say?" he told the House Homeland Security Committee. "If they don't want to cooperate then you don't come in."
At least with FB it's against the TOS, and if you sign on from an unfamiliar IP, it would try other challenges to validate your identity.
I can imagine Facebook, Twitter etc. blowing up over this.
Besides, if they get password access how can they use ANYTHING they find as evidence of anything? They've got WRITE access, for crying out loud! The evidence chain isn't just poisoned, it's rotted right through.
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Maybe other countries will demand the same thing. I can see el Presidente Tweety giving up his password in the name of security.
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What is stopping people creating false social media accounts with benign information and messages and just handing those over?
This clearly hasn't been thought through.
Make a new account a few days before you cross, tell them you were not a FB/Twitter/Whatever user beforehand. This is worse than useless because it erodes the rights of honest people while being completely ineffective against those we want to target.
Disband NATO Deoccupy Europe
Don't forget to create a second account... What a waste of time, money , and effort all in the name of fear. Please wake up people.
Next up on the hit series "'Murica: Hell yeah!", the orange prez makes a scandalous law - all students are to get daily cavity searches.
While glove manufacturer stock prices are soaring, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly tells worried students "If you don't want your rectum searched for contraband, just stay at home.
God-damn the news are getting entertaining.
It is nonya...nonyabizniz. Privacy issue here people.
I'm not even sure how this is supposed to work. "Do you have any social media accounts?" "No." "Curses, Foiled again!"
or even worse, "Sure, I'm Anonymous Coward on Slashdot."
What are *chan users going to report?
And it should start as soon as possible.
Social media - like all the media - have developed an evil component.
Almost every recent terrorist attack on our homeland have used social media.
Make America Great Again.
and God bless us all.
So....they get your password. They then use it - as you - to say/send any threat they want, arrest you.....The Aristocrats!
Also what happens if you don't have a facebook account? Will they bar you for entry because they can't frame you?
People will just keep real and fake social media accounts. One for real stuff, and one for border control to ogle.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Is it to be a requirement to hand over passwords to accounts that don't exist.
DHS: "Social media logins and passwords, please.
Victim: "I don't have any social media accounts. I don't want to be Zuck's product"
DHS: "BS! Everyone has an account! No entry! Cavity search!"
Or...
DHS: "Social media logins and passwords, please"
Victim: "here."
DHS: "These accounts are brand new, you must be a terrorist! No entry! Cavity search!"
It's like taxation.
Governments these days don't ban things so much - people object.
Instead they tax them to the point no one can afford them.
The idea is staggeringly bad. It is a complete and utter disavowel of all the principles of freedom - all contracts must be voluntary and well-informed, except in self-defence. The self-defence principle does not apply here, because it cannot justify banning all the people from seven countries. It's like saying all blacks are musical.
Don't expect to keep your jihadi, socialist, or subversive secrets. Don't like it? Stay out.
USA doesn't want tourists visiting the country
or business people doing trade deals
Believe it or not, their are still people in the world (like me) who REFUSE to use ANYTHING that smells like social media, period.
Do I have to somehow convince them that I really honestly don't have a social media account they can use to violate my privacy. Or are we now required by law to have one?
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kinks/destroyer_20078967.html
I've deleted my 'social media' accounts. I don't have any. If they want my emails, they need a warrant. Ask me all the questions you want, that's legal.
But I'll be fucking god-damned if I'll be forced to link myself to ANY 3rd party service *THAT OWNS AND CONTROLS ALL CONTENT* as any sort of proof that I'm not doing anything illegal or dangerous.
This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that the framers of the Constitution stayed up late thinking about with a few modern details. FUCK this shit, it's UNAMERICAN and also fungible.
I'm not surprised DHS is "considering" something like this. Certain gestapo elements in our government always are trying thuggish and ill considered tactics to make their lives easier. This is plainly a stupid and counterproductive idea to anyone with a functioning brain but the danger is real enough. The good news is that the companies affected (Facebook, Twitter, etc) have lots of money and flesh eating lawyers to fight such an over-reach by the government. I don't generally trust Facebook but I do trust their profit motive and DHS forcing people to hand over passwords is a clear and present danger to their bottom line.
This screening requires judgment to figure out who the person coming in is.
Sorting between a friendly, harmless wacko and a risky one is not always easy.
If the DHS didn't know they were screening the President, I wonder how the test would turn out.
If this behavior is permitted, then the social media sites need to start implementing read-only passwords for account. It is one thing to allow the US government to see everything n your account, and all your friend's accounts. It is an entirely different thing to allow the US government to act on your behalf with your account.
Sucks to be DHS. My FB password alone is like 255 random characters. What about 2FA systems? They can have the password, but they're not getting the token.
I'll just start using 128 character passwords, randomly generated from the non-ascii part of Unicode.
Just create a fake account with a crappy password or tell them you don't have a social network account. If they give you hell, tell them to prove it. If they can prove it, it's your own damn fault for posting about yourself online.
One real and one fake.
This only applies to visitors? How about asking residents, including officials, to hand over their passwords?
This is only if you're coming from one of the seven banned countries.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
You are admitted to the US (and other Western nations) only if you can establish with reasonable certainty that you (1) will leave again, and (2) won't cause harm while you're here. If you come from places like Europe, the US uses your police records, surveillance data, credit records, and similar information to make that determination. If you come from places like Somalia or Yemen, reliable records are not available, and the US is trying to use social media profiles as an unofficial substitute. I think that's a bad idea. Social media profiles are unlikely to be very reliable, and the whole thing looks appears like a massive invasion of privacy. The US should generally give visas only to people who can provide credible government and financial records, with case-by-case exemptions in a few special cases.
Just another reason to not use social media.
P.S. I don't even remember my FB password, on those rare occasions that I try to use FB from a new device I always have to go through the "forgot your password?" ordeal. But I don't expect border officials to be too sympathetic about that.
Most social networks (like Facebook) expressly forbid sharing passwords or allowing others to use your account. Because that's the policy it becomes a Felony according to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The United States Court of Appeals has affirmed sharing accounts contrary to the TOS is a violation of the CFAA and there are people in PRISON as we speak for doing just that.
I would contend that you cannot be compelled to commit a felony by a agent of the United States. If DHS wants this power they need to have the CFAA amended to grant them an exemption.
No social media account? You're a terrorist.
#DeleteFacebook
Obviously terrorists are going to use other accounts. What they're after obviously has nothing to do with the foreign national entering the country, it's about using their social media accounts to spy on people already in the US, potentially US citizens in ways that the courts and the social media themselves have blocked so far. It's draconian, but good news in a way: it demonstrates that the changes in the way that social media companies do business in a post-Snowden world are in fact keeping the US government out of their/our data.
The short article Using Metadata to Find Paul Revere, which was popular a year or so ago but seems to have been forgotten, should be required reading on the subject.
That can only be described as fucking stupid. Hell, why don't we make them submit to vivisection? Then we could learn LOTS and be certain they couldn't be a threat afterwards!
There are many reasons it is stupid but for starters: Most everyone reuses passwords simply so there is some chance that they can actually remember their passwords. So what this amounts to is, "Give us unrestricted access to everything."
And this coming from one of the least trustworthy things that exists: A government agency...
If they want your social account's name, fine. They can look it up for themselves. If a court wants to approve it they can have Facebook build them a read-only interface that will show a person's complete activity. (I suspect they already have this.) I'm wondering if they want this so they can go pillaging through all of a person's other internet activity. That makes sense.
It's just another talking point to create distrust about anyone in Trump's way, like Fake News social media ....
"We tried to keep America safe, but the leftists in Silicon Valley took us to court and wouldn't let us look at terrorist social media accounts. Wake up America! If a terrorist kills a US citizen, blame over-rated Facebook. Sad."
Well played, President Breitbart^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HTrump.
"I don't use social media. I think it's dumb."
What are they going to do?
"No officer, I don't know my password. It is filled in automatically by my password manager, which lives on my laptop which I left at home." And off to jail you go.
How many social network identities, if any, I have? This is just plain FUD!
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
So, the US government can't be trusted with your facebook password, but you want to put that same government in complete control of health care?
Which is it?
If the US government is trustworthy enough to control the private details of your health, it's surely trustworthy enough to have access to your FB account for a short time, no?
They have probably just mixed up a login with a password. They want read access, but don't know yet what is the difference between a password and a login. Perhaps they have used too much services requiring an email address as a login. This way design decisions corrupt the legislation of a country. It's an engineering ethics failure.
I simply won't go to the US unless my job forces me to. I certainly won't spend any tourist dollars there until this bullshit stops.
What happens then? You get rejected because you don't have a trackable presence? Thats the whole reason for avoiding social media in the first place.
Dude, Shaniqua LaFawnduh Washington-Jackson is perfectly capable of determining your entire treatment plan for Stage III pancreatic cancer... clearly FB passwords should be no big deal.
I'm sure it will be a surprise to all the people of Arabic, Turkic, Indo-Iranian or East Indian peoples to know that they are of Negroid ancestry
Go out to Netflix and browse for the word 'Border' and you'll get 6 - 10 shows from Australia, Canada, Great Britain about the goings on at their borders. Not an episode goes by without their immigration department quizzing a visa holder about their working there on a tourist visa (not allowed). The tourist always says they don't plan on working while in the country. But then the agents rifle through their phones and show the tourist their own emails, texts, and documents proving they have already setup work or are trying to arrange work. How do the agents get access to tourist's phones? They demand access or no visa.
Many of the tourists are Americans who probably are bitching about our laws but fully understand the need of other countries to defend their borders. Yep, they hand their passwords right over. No complaints. Americans are hypocrites. Yep, they'll march around waving hateful signs but have some Australian border agent tell them their 4 week vacation is over if they don't provided their iPhone password and blam they hand it right over. No standing up for human rights when it comes to getting your outback vacation in.
Have gnu, will travel.
"act of terrorism in the US" - when and how did that become a talking point? It is beyond stupid that a thinking person would advance that as a foundation of a good argument. This is like inviting Manson over for dinner because he never killed anyone in your state.
They have been doing this for a long time. There was no pushback against it during the elections. It's certainly not going to change now. The people who vote obviously don't give a damn, expect for that tiny percentage that vote against either faction of the ruling party. Sorry folks, your majority rule has hit a brick wall. It will only get worse, and you only have yourselves to blame. This is what you wanted, and now you got it. A big hearty thanks from the rest of us!
We can set up such a password, parent over the shoulder, password etc. They will appear to be normal and seemingly function cleanly. But it will expose only parts of the account you had already deemed safe for that access.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Why do they need this? They already have a current "backup" in that special Utah data center.
Do cellular subscribers outside the United States still receive messages without charge even when roaming in the United States?
How exactly is data sitting on a server in silicon valley "at the border" just because the person who created that data is at the border? By that logic, you can search their car, house, workplace and bank account without a warrant as long as they are standing at the border when you do it.
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CBP has been confiscating and rummaging through telephones and computers for years. They don't need your FB password if they can break into your computer. http://www.wnyc.org/story/my-d...
I like what you did there, but why stop with that?
"If you don't want your rectum searched for contraband, just stay at home."
"If you don't want your social media scrutinized, just cut yourself off from your social circle."
"If you don't want your pussy grabbed, why do you have one?"
"If you don't want to be shot in the face, why do you have a face?"
"If you don't want to be discriminated against based on your religion, just quit your religion."
So many problems become easy when you ask people to abandon everything important to them!
1) Not everyone uses social media
2) Trivial to set up multiple accounts
3) If you're gonna Jihad, don't put it on FB
4) Other countries may start requiring it from US visitors
5) Other than being innaccurate ( see #1 and #2 ) and annoying, what exactly does it gain us intelligence wise ?
How exactly is data sitting on a server in silicon valley "at the border" just because the person who created that data is at the border?
The persistent identification cookie on the laptop, tablet computer, or smartphone that a traveler carries allows access. But it's difficult to extract said cookies because of the design of operating systems and web browsers for those devices. As a substitute for a means of exporting cookies, they ask for enough information to replicate the identification cookies stored on the device.
There are two evident solutions:
- Do not go to the US (or any other police state)
- Do not have social media accounts
Preferably, both. A bit of sightseeing is not worth surrendering your privacy and being treated like a criminal.
Step 1. Delete your Facebook Account before leaving your country.
Step 2. Reply, "I don't have a Facebook Account" when asked.
Step 3. Restart your Facebook Account at some later time.
Problem solved.
Proverbs 21:19
First of all, anyone who doesn't have a FB account (like me) and doesn't give a shit about making one (like me) will create one for the US trip because obviously now you need one to enter the US. I would even write exactly this onto the page, that this page only exists because DHS wants to see a FB page from me, so I had to make one, don't expect any updates because they will not be forthcoming.
Everyone who does have one and has reason to think that DHS doesn't like what's going on on it will create a fake one.
And now try to convince DHS that the one you created because you have none and don't give a shit about telling the world how good your last dump was is not a fake one you created because you're Bin Laden's lovechild.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
In actual implementation, most likely, people will be asked to login themselves — jumping through whatever secondary authentication-hoops there may be — on the officer's computer or on their own one. They don't need your password — which you can change immediately afterwards anyway — they just want to see, who you are...
Israel has been doing it for years (including access to your emails), for example. I do not like it, but I don't like my luggage and person being searched either — this is not especially more outrageous.
What a duly privacy-minded service could offer is something like a duress password — if you login using that code instead of your usual one, certain mailboxes, messages, etc. are to be hidden... Can't hide everything — or even most things — because then the officer may get suspicious...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
That's all you'd have to say. What are they going to do, waterboard you until you admit you're on Facebook? I suppose if you're dumb enough that you actually use Facebook and actually have a picture of yourself in your profile and they find it all, then you're stuck, but what self-respecting terrorist is going to post pictures of themselves online? Also as others have pointed out, divulging your passwords is against Terms of Service for just about anything online, and in fact it may be a felony to allow someone else to access your accounts, even if it's law enforcement. This also sets a dangerous precendent, I think, if allowed to go forward; if they can force people coming into the country to give up passwords to online accounts, then there's a good argument for forcing anyone to give up their passwords, even if you were born in the U.S. and have never set foot outside it's borders, and never have had so much as a parking ticket your entire life.
Of course "this is a bad idea" and "this is a dangerous precedent" are phrases I think we're going to be hearing quite a bit in the next 4 years..
... social media.
Don't have a Facebook account?
Get one, then we'll talk.
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there I said it
I don't *have* a FB account.
That one?
Someone must have put that up about me, but I certainly didn't.
Yes, please, waterboard me for my alleged Facebook password.
-Styopa
I deleted my facebook several years ago. I never used twitter. I have this /. account. What will they do with people who do not partake in social networking?
So regular non-threat people will have to let these bumbling thugs go through their private social media, and actual terrorists will hand over the fake account they prepared just for this purpose.
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Wouldn't it be enough just to declare any social media accounts that you are on? Friend lists should be enough to determine if someone is connected with terrorists.
love is just extroverted narcissism
"Facebook password?"
"I don't use Facebook"
"Twitter account?"
"I don't use twitter"
I suppose I could give them my AC account name for slashdot, but I'm not sure what the other ACs have been up to, so that's probably a bad idea.
"DHS officials also stated that if the wife of a US visitor is good-looking, they want to demand they get to sleep with the woman before allowing entry to the couple..."
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Uh, that is a trick question, right?
That "Donald Trump has the best words."
Each one has been lovingly hand-filled by my well paid assistants with glowing comments about the Great again United States, and how handsome and insightful its great blonde (duly elected) God-king is.
Very cheap. Contact "Butch Hillhurst" on Silk Road 4.0 for details.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Try to confine yourself to relevant, intelligent posts. Don't fall into the trap of lowering yourself to their level.
FUCK YOU, DHS
I suppose now it will be alright for foreign governments to demand the same of US citizens traveling abroad?
They were only following orders.
That's the bottom line. Do you think American citizens have rights in Iraq? I rest my case. Mod me down liberals, reality still stands.
We'll make great pets
All humans are.
Anyone who works with "normies" regularly already knows; most users don't know their own password, for anything. DHS better get good at walking people through recovering passwords. The idea that it would just be a simple conversation of "What are your FB credentials" "My username is bombmaker69@fakemail.com, my password is monkey123" is laughable. Might happen 1 in 10 times, even if everyone wanted to comply.
You are obviously a dangerous lone wolf terrorist.
We only want sheep entering the US, who will get along sociaaaaaaaaly with all the other sheep.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country's top domestic security chief said.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress on Tuesday the measure was one of several being considered to vet refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
We'll make great pets
Carrying a blanked-out device through customs would probably look suspicious and get you into "enhanced" inspection.
I don't do Facebook or Twitter. So does that mean I can't enter the US?
Oh wait, I do have a LinkedIn account, but use it seldom, change the password every few visits, and normally access it only from a desktop or laptop that has my password manager and its database. So if I'm not carrying my personal laptop must I not enter the US? What about my work laptop that only has the corporate stuff installed, with few if any personal files, no social media apps, and if I understand the corporate policies correctly no copy of my emails (which normally store only on the corporate server); if that's the only one I'm carrying, must I not enter the US?
For that matter, almost all of my passwords by now have become random, long things that I can't remember, and have to use a password manager (local, not online) for - a pain if I ever need one on the phone where the mobile version of the manager doesn't work very well (and is seldom needed once the apps are set up anyway) so it's not installed. I can give them the access code for the phone but other than my contacts list and photos they won't find much data there. So lacking common social media accounts, the ability to give them a LinkedIn password because I don't use it on the phone or corporate laptop and therefore don't have the password loaded, or even a laptop at all, must I not enter the US? (Yes, I'm somewhat of a Luddite but not religious about it.)
Oh yes, I'm a US citizen but that doesn't seem to matter at the border any more.
John Smith, we see that you have 7,325 Facebook profiles. We want the password to all of them.
How do they 'prove' you have social media accounts? What you are basically telling people is to leave their phone at home, and do all business with the US via a burner. Turn everything to private and then what? Prove it belongs to someone. We have a law in our state, Brownbackistan, that we must self report all purchases outside the state so we can pay sales tax on it. Yeah, no they collect nothing. Actually I think I heard once they collected about $50 a year total from it. Hasn't even paid for the ink used to write it.
So they want access to falsify evidence.. By being able to post fake posts or send fake messages under their name..?
I see no room for abuse there!
-Myke
Yah vol, Herr Commandant!
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
I'm sure it will be a surprise to all the people of Arabic, Turkic, Indo-Iranian or East Indian peoples to know that they are of Negroid ancestry
Sorry, but Arabs, Turks, Indians, Pakistani, et al, are Caucasian. As In fact, the Caucasian "Race" was born in the...Caucasus. There are only three basic phenotypes [since the concept of race is outdated and unscientific]: Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid. Differences [that can be huge] in skin color don't make a Turk less Caucasian than Scots or Spaniards.
The old concept of race has more to do with cranial metrics and other structural features than skin color. And yes, Latin Americans come in the three flavors and more in between. Fidel Castro? Typical Mediterranean Caucasian. Mexico's president? A cross of Mongoloid and Caucasoid. And so it goes.
I can just imagine being denied at the border to France because I couldn't remember my Myspace password...or turned away from China because I don't have a snap chat account (how can I give them the password if I don't have one?). This is as absurd a protection as everyone but children taking off shoes at airports, but it's far more onerous and problematic.
What is needed is an app that builds a second Facebook account with a clean history, sanitized posts etc
If you're going to suggest German Fascism, you might as well get the fucking German right.
I guess they can have that.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Sure they can have my LinkedIn access as long as they connect my account to some super sweet recruiters, with hot job prospects, for me.
You're not following the joke.
And it was in reference to Hogan's Heroes.
You might want to get your fucking references right.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Whoa, you must be quite the wet blanket at parties.
I don't use social media, and I'm pissed off about this. I wonder if I'll get extra special treatment when they ask for my passwords, since there aren't any.
Bastards!
Numb nuts, it's spelled "jawohl", even when an actor on Hogan's Heroes says the line.
Other countries already do this and have for years.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
Well, sorta - visit Israel. They want you to login to your FB, twitter, gmail accounts on their computer. Refuse? Get held for a day and shipped home.
I don't know my accounts or logins for those systems. Don't use them much. If I wasn't a US citizen, I'd just make a few fake accounts - which would quickly be seen as fake accounts for travel purposes and I'd be shipped home.
this rule is being applied to NON-HUMANS. This does not apply to American Humans.
And what if, shock, horror, you don't use social media and don't have a social media account. Are you refused entry?
>"People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords...If they don't want to cooperate then you don't come in."
And exactly what are you supposed to do if you have no "social media" passwords because you have no such accounts. I have no Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, etc accounts at all....
So which social media site is the first that will let users configure a distress password?
Assorted stuff I do sometimes: Lemuria.org
"And any that have my band associated with it are fraudulent, and that picture that looks like a selfie of me that is the profile pic is one someone took of me in public, and photoshopped onto someone else taking a selfie or is an imposter dressed up to look like me; also all the posts made by this person whose account it really is talking glowingly about how great and wonderful violent jihad is, is just meant to embarrass me..."
Or worse...
The brutal dictator who runs the government of the country I'm desperately fleeing with my family ALSO required my social media passwords as a condition of leaving the country with a pulse... they are responsible for these posts about bomb-making..."
This is such a stupid fucking idea, it could ONLY have been concocted to convince drooling submorons that they're actually DOING something while they continue to be feckless and ineffectual, corrupt and incompetent.
There are so many ways around this that it would only stop a complete idiot, so... glad they're wasting taxpayer money on this.
Courts have frequently extended constitutional protections to people from other countries interacting with the US government. I have a hard time seeing why this would be any different. I seriously hope this gets challenged in court, and the administration loses very badly.
Requesting passwords makes no sense. Domestically stored data is already easily obtainable through third-party doctrine or just purchased. Using the obtained passwords would be illegal. Using them to access foreign servers would be a nightmare diplomatically.
How ... quaint ...
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In recent terror attacks in Europe, terrorists were native europeans.
So will US next ask its entire population to hand over all their passwords ?
Or maybe NSA already got them...
Just my 2p.
If they do not want the TSA guys to look into their accounts they can say they don't have one. Or is that a new rule now that you have to have a Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google+ account in order to enter the US?
I know it may seem impossible to a lot of people, but I see no reason to have a facebook account.
Would I be banned from entering the country? Would it depend on if I looked "old enough" or "non-techie" enough, that the guard would believe I don't have a facebook account, and was not lying to them?
...I'm not a dumb fuck
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I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
Do you mean social network passwords? Because there is no such thing as a social media password.
Social media is the content on social networks, why does commercial mainstream/broadcasting companies keep mixing the two.
It's legally impossible to comply with such a request - so no way i'm going there. I'll be sourcing my tooling from more democratic countries instead.
Apart of some very often used sites where I have to enter my user details every time I access them (like my webmail my computer at home and at work) I can't even tell you my password because I don't remember it. I have to write my passwords down in a file and look them up every time I have to use them. That goes for my Facebook profile (which is logged in on my home computer but I can't access it at work because I don't remember the password) to virtually every webshop I ever bought something and online newspapers.
So, are they really going to deny me entry if I genuinely don't know the password?
USA, the land of the free and the home of the brave? I don't think so. The land of the opressed and the home of the frightend.
As soon as you give up your password, it should be reasonable that you can't be accounted for anything that happens in your account(s).
Also, people reutilize passwords a lot, I guess they are shooting for that too.
No, no, no. No, no, no. Data privacy - period. Let the bleeping government have one reason to get anyone's data and they'll have the way to get yours in no time.
They jyst have to change it afterward. Doh!
Not on Hogan's Heroes.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Wait hold up, what? It costs more for a landline subscriber to call a cell phone than to call a local landline?
Because calls from one landline to another in the same city have long been toll-free in the United States, the pricing model for its cellular market is to charge for airtime on each leg of the call so that a landline user doesn't incur unexpected tolls when calling a cell phone. For example, if a cellular carrier's voice toll is ten cents per minute, a call from a landline to a cell phone or vice versa costs the cell phone subscriber ten cents per minute, and a call from a cell phone to another cell phone costs each subscriber ten cents per minute, or a total of twenty cents per minute between the two of them. An SMS is billed as one minute of airtime. (Source: T-Mobile USA's pay-as-you-go plan) The next step up from pay-as-you-go is usually unmetered voice and SMS, both outgoing and incoming, but that costs hundreds of dollars per year.
I have visited the US over a dozen times. what a beautiful country & great people.
I have so many friends there.
But now I will not go there any longer - until the administration behaves again as I expect in a civilized country.
I foresee the tourist numbers - and thus $$$ revenue dropping now.
what a shame - I hope I can visit this wonderful country again some day.
Greetings from myheart to all you americans that have made my many visists to enjoyable
Deactivate all social media accounts before flying. Reactivate once you've reached your destination. Lather, rinse, repeat for the trip home.
If it doesn't have facebook app on it, or facebook on browser memory, It's going to be hard to prove you even have a FB account. Or Twitter, or LinkedIn, etc
Why stop with social media passwords? Getting the password for access to their bank account would allow them to do a quick check for money transfers to and from terrorist organizations. And you definitely need to get access to their email. Who knows who they've been talking to! And make them play back their phone's voicemail for all to hear. That message from grandma could contain secret terrorist orders encoded in her cookie recipe!
Restless should be rested.
Irrelevant. And I've never seen that film anyway.
Joke? What joke? It's just badly misspelled German.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
I have been around the world and the US is still the most desirable place to be or do business by far. If you want a socialist paradise or a communist totalitarian state, there are other options. The EU is uncomfortable, dirty, and has about 10 years of life left and then it will fragment as member states go bankrupt under their massive socialist spending and donor states like the UK and Germany leave. Good luck starting a business in the EU. France is deteriorating fast and will become a Muslim majority country around 2050, the radicals they have invited in may turn it into a war zone long before that. Look to the middle east to see how that will turn out. I have hope for the UK, but the world in general is pretty unstable and uncertain.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
The problem, as I see it, is when people who I consider reasonable suddenly begin pondering how to break the law, or subvert it, then there is a bigger issue than just "You're breaking the law". you've made law abiding citizens into criminals.
You can kiss goodbye all the money that comes from tourism. People have lost interest in seeing the US anyway. Uganda and Zimbabwe looks more attractive and you don't have to go through a stripsearch and scorn to get there. The US is all yours "Americans".
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti