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Is there something more to the story? I travel with laptops and iPads all the time. Never been stopped.
by pcardh0 10y ago
Is there something more to the story? I travel with laptops and iPads all the time. Never been stopped.
- gorbachev 10y agoYou're not on a Government watch list. Start working on Tor, LavaBit, Wikileaks or any other technology initiative the Government sees as a risk, and see what happens. Alternatively you could also start acting as a publisher of leaked Government documents.
- johnchristopher 10y agoWhat about some of the interesting domain names in the list featured on his website ? Some might tip off someone in a federal agency to have a look on the guy.
- angry_octet 10y agoAnd in MAGA land, probably many other thought crimes. Like, going to a women's rights march.
- angry_octet 10y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/canadian-traveling-to-womens-march-said-he-was-turned-away-at-the-us-border/2017/01/21/79e4b4ee-dff9-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html?utm_term=.e5a1b1d451c5 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/canadian-traveling-to-w...
- shrimp_emoji 10y agoYou've got it wrong; it's the regressive left who convicts people of thought time. In "MAGA land", you're free to piss the left off in defiance of their byzantine schemes of political correctness.
- angry_octet 10y agoCBP are known to be resoundingly pro-Trump. It was a great example of perverting their authority to discriminate against views they don't like. The next step will be to mark NGOs as having 'foreign influence'. Pretty soon RT'ing Amnesty International or the EFF will exclude you from government or sub-contractor employment. Just look at what happens in Russia.
- burger 10y agoOr have a name similar to someone who does. Or be selected accidentally because a DBA didn't account for an OBOE in a query.
- DaiPlusPlus 10y agoWhat's an OBOE?
- inferiorhuman 10y agoA double reed woodwind musical instrument.
- jk563 10y agoOff By One Error
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoWasn't Tor a US government funded project? >"The Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau" >"As of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2 million annual budget came from the United States government, with the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation as major contributors" [from wikipedia] If you are in the US State Dept. and were associated with Tor do you get stopped at the border because of that?
- lolikoisuru 10y agoHim having had a lightning talk at DEFCON, having attended conferences like CCC, having many prior dealings with law enforcement thanks to his email service and many people of interest using his service might have something to do with it. E: The transparency page might be of interest to you: https://cock.li/transparency/ https://cock.li/transparency/ Or possibly you'd want to hear about the time the servers got seized: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774152 && https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912524
- ninjin 10y agoI highly recommend having a look at the transparency page, it includes audio recordings of phone conversations with the FBI and more. Fascinating stuff if you are interested in how law enforcement works. For example, handling an NDA request [1]. [1]: https://cock.li/transparency/2016-09-22-subpoena/call-2.ogg https://cock.li/transparency/2016-09-22-subpoena/call-2.ogg
- eplanit 10y agoSame here. I travel (lots) with laptops and lots of loose electronic gear (boards, cables, JTAG probes). I'm actually surprised how never once have I been harassed or put through any special screening. I've noticed them taking some extra time looking at the stuff in the X-ray machine, but that's all. This is on international as well as domestic flights.