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Encrypted Chat Developer Detained, Interrogated at US Border
- mindstab 14y agoI love the inherent schizophrenia in the US political system. They are so in love with anti censorship technologies when employed against countries they don't like, like in China or Arab Spring, even going so far as to help develop the tech (tor) or ask the maintainers for special considerations (the US gov asked twitter to alter its maintenance schedule for Arab spring). But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging
- excuse-me 14y agoQuite right too. If somebody had managed to detect the subversive writings of that terrorist leader Benjamin Franklin in time, the whole revolution business could have been avoided.
- endlessvoid94 14y agoI see your point. It's not a great analogy though. He was a revolutionary, but he was not a terrorist.
- excuse-me 14y agoWould have been if he had lost
- endlessvoid94 14y agoWho did he terrorize?
- mindstab 14y agoThe British?
- excuse-me 14y agoThere was the 20% of the population that actively opposed the revolution many of whom were attacked had their property seized and were eventually forced to move to Canada. As well as the majority who really just wanted everything to carry on peacefully Alternatively it could be that 100% of the population fully supported the revolution leading to a universal popular uprising of the oppressed - just like Russia in 1917!
- rmc 14y agoThe records show 100% of the population were on board.
- excuse-me 14y agoYes they always do!
- pyre 14y agoIf 100% of the population was on-board, then who did they rise up against? Even if it's a single leader, he/she is still part of the population of a country.
- rmc 14y agoI was satiring totalitarian states that tend to produce fake nonsense statistics about how popular they are. e.g. in 2002 Saddam Hussein was re-elected President of Iraq. He got 100% of the votes, and there was 100% turnout ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/16/iraq http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/16/iraq )
- jlgreco 14y agoAnd that we have always been at war with Eastasia.
- dpeck 14y agoI'm going to guess that the loyalists of the day couldn't tell much difference.
- rufibarbatus 14y agoThe way you phrased your comment can only lead to arguing semantics of the word “terrorist”. As risk to the establishment, a “subversive” can always be framed as a terrorist with a little bit of creativity. Can you volunteer a significant difference between Franklin and a modern-day terrorist from the establishment ruler's standpoint?
- chc 14y agoHe didn't intentionally kill or maim civilian targets with the goal of inciting terror?
- idonthack 14y agoCorrect, he just produced and distributed propaganda to encourage people to take up arms against a foreign oppressor. Which, these days, is enough to get you and your family killed by a drone strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Alwaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Alwaki
- endlessvoid94 14y agoYes, I just meant that he didn't orchestrate and/or carry out the murders of innocent people with the sole purpose of inciting terror. I don't think there's much to argue about here.
- tomjen3 14y agoYeah Franklin is a guy who has some of the same interests and values as you. You could imagine having dinner with him. You could imagine being him. The modern terrorist is none of these things.
- rufibarbatus 14y agoIt's a shame this comment got downvoted. Be it serious or tongue-in-cheek, it was very enlightening.
- excuse-me 14y ago
- shrikant 14y agoExtremists on your side are revolutionaries. Extremists not on your side are terrorists.
- excuse-me 14y agoExtremists that win are revolutionaries Extremists that lose are terrorists If we aren't sure yet they are insurgents If it ends with nobody winning and the leaders getting Nobel peace prizes (N.Ireland) then they were all just folk dancers that got out of hand.
- dmoo 14y agoI don't think that Betty Williams or Mairead Maguire could be described as extremists, John Hume and David Trimble were not at the extreme end of their respective sides in the conflict either. 'Folk dancers', well if you feel happy about that comment thats up to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Williams_%28Nobel_laureate%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Williams_%28Nobel_laureat... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairead_Maguire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairead_Maguire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hume http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hume http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trimble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trimble
- excuse-me 14y agoYes it's odd how afterwards there were no terrorists, they had been no civil war and yet a few politicians an arms length from the Armalites all got Nobel Prizes for solving a problem that never happened.
- rhizome 14y agoMaterial supporter?
- panarky 14y agoThank you for your comment. It has been added to your profile and your thoughtcrime score has been updated. We look forward to interviewing you the next time you attempt to cross the border.
- chaostheory 14y agoWhat's even more sad is the repercussions that I see for the startup and technology scene. I believe our freedoms and our rights are what gives the US a huge edge in terms of creativity compared to countries like China and Singapore. Our intellectual freedoms are what leads to huge innovations, that tends to surprise a lot of people still. Without these freedoms I feel that we'll slowly lose one of our major advantages in the coming decades.
- gavinlynch 14y ago"But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. The hypocrisy is... challenging" So you see this border interrogation as part of a systematic policy to intimidate developers entering the United States with expertise in cryptographic dev? Gotta be honest, that seems like a wild and illogical extrapolation to me based on this anecdotal story. So the end game of the United States government is what exactly, in this effort? To keep people with cryptographic talent outside of the US? 1) Why? I presume your point is that the government is attempting in a very, very, very round-about way to stifle free speech? Please inform me if this is not your point, I don't want to put words in your mouth. 2) What would that accomplish. We live in an era of instant communication and transportation of software. Developers can work on products from anywhere in the globe. If this man was denied entry to the United States, what is stopping him from simply working for his company from abroad? The answer: nothing. It would serve pretty much zero purpose to run a campaign of intimidation against an incredibly small subset of the developer population... Programmers with cryptographic expertise who frequently travel in and outside of the United States... I don't get it. What about all of those with crypto experience who are already in the US and don't travel. Aren't they a threat? Are they being targeted? Where are their stories? Doesn't the government, when they are looking to either break or make these same crypto software, draw from the same talent pool as private industry here in America? Why would they run that talent out of town? If the US government wanted to suppress cryptographic research or otherwise circumvent it in an effort to subvert Free Speech, don't you think there are more precise and non-haphazard-and-idiotic ways of doing it? This goes against the general sentiment of comments I've seen in this article, but I just have to say it. I think the idea is ridiculous and above all, completely inefficient for the goals everyone is ascribing to the border agents and the government here. Logic doesn't really back this up. I can't imagine the point of this. I am not naive enough to think the government doesn't do some shady stuff, but I simply don't see the point and don't see this as an effective tool in whatever their war on developers is supposed to be.
- ScottBurson 14y agoEverything you say makes sense, but alas, the government is not always observed to be strong on logic. But okay, given your argument, what do you think happened here, and why? Do you think this report is a complete fabrication?
- kmfrk 14y agoThis is a minor derail, but please don't use the term "schizophrenia" to be equal to dissociative identity disorder. "Cognitive dissonance" is better and doesn't use other people's actual conditions as pejoratives. Just a pet peeve I have, don't mean to call you out or anything. :)
- mst 14y agoAnd in any case, many DID systems are perfectly co-operative so that wouldn't really apply either. "Hypocrisy" or "self contradiction" would IMO be even better.
- Spoom 14y agoI'm guessing what happened was something like the following: - They asked him what he did for work (as they pretty much always do at a border crossing, in my experience). - He said he developed software. - They asked what kind of software. - He said CryptoCat. - The officer, knowing that there are export restrictions on cryptography, gave him a longer secondary interview. I don't think they're targeting anyone here, though I wonder just how much knowledge the interviewer had about cryptography specifically.
- horsehead 14y agoAgreed. I think this incident has been blown way out of proportion. I am disappointed it has received so much attention ... the news article doesn't even give voice or opportunity to comment to anyone other than the complainer in the story. ....
- drone 14y agoHardly even a news article - it's someone making supposition from a handful of tweets. Good fodder for the intertubess.
- darklajid 14y agoI'll bite. Disclaimer: Never been to the US, don't plan to do it, limited insight into the laws over there. How are export restrictions relevant for people entering the country? Aren't US export restrictions only affecting US citizens or corporations? According to his twitter page that guys from Montreal / Beirut? And how does the whole idea of export restrictions for decentralized internet projects work? I do believe this might've been blown out of proportions, but your answer seems a little too naive/easy, from this armchair here.
- drone 14y agoActually, he was leaving the country[1], but I'm pretty sure that's ultimately beside the point. I have sincere doubts that cryptography was the reason for his detainment. By his own admission he had been detained four times in the previous three weeks[2]. Tweets quite often in support of Wikileaks/Assange/Manning, hails from Lebanon[3], makes strong indications that he is an activist, and just got done speaking at a human rights conference[4] - I have a hard time believing they stopped him because he wrote an encrypted chat program. Did they ask him about cryptography? They probably did, but I'd bet dollars to donuts he brought it up first. [1] https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210363454954016769 https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210363454954016769 [2] https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210367538759086083 https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210367538759086083 [3] https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210386514369191936 https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210386514369191936 [4] https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/208388821346299904 https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/208388821346299904
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- narrator 14y agoYou really think that the government even cares about behaving consistently at all any more? They just ask the PR people to whip up whatever they think will move the situation in the direction they want and they craft the message and the media plays along. The people in operations operate independently from the PR people so their actions are rarely consistent with the message the PR people are feeding to the public.
- mtgx 14y agoThis is not the first time I'm noticing how US is checking every passenger against some database with everything he said online. This makes me a lot less likely to ever visit the US, and if awareness about cases like these grows, I'm sure others will think the same way.
- rdtsc 14y agoThis makes me more scared living in the US. I am approaching the level of fear of the government that is close to what I remember having from the older Soviet Union (note: I never living the harsher political times there, mostly during the mid 80s when stuff was thawing out). It is not a fear that legally I can't talk or do things. It is fear again irrationality and against bureaucratic mistakes. You pissed off one police officer or one border patrol agent and now you are on some kind of secret database or black list for life.
- mtgx 14y agoSomeone who has lived in communist countries understands the danger of this trend a lot better than Americans do, it seems. There is Reddit in other sites that raise awareness about situations like these, but I don't think there's a critical mass yet to turn things around. The vast majority of Americans is probably still more afraid about terrorists than they are of this trend in Government, therefore the trend will continue.
- gavinlynch 14y ago"The vast majority of Americans is probably still more afraid about terrorists than they are of this trend in Government, therefore the trend will continue." Government border checks are a bigger problem than religious terrorists?
- ta12121 14y agoNo, intrusive government government checks combined with government databases of citizens' online activities are a bigger problem than religious terrorists. And the answer is yes.
- Paul_S 14y agoIt's like someone going for a stroll at night in a shady part of town and then complaining they got mugged. What the hell did they expect would happen? Same goes for the US. Start paying attention to the news. It's been widely reported for the past decade, yet people still go there.
- milesskorpen 14y agoWhile I think the US has some absurd border policies, this sounds overblown -- only 1 hour? I regularly hear about people detained for far more than that, and it wouldn't be difficult for Border Control to hold him far long than that.
- illamint 14y agoLink is blocked via Websense at work. Is there an alternate source?
- cldrope 14y agoYou can find the story without useless "journalistic context" on his twitter feed, where it came from: https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210366514442932224 https://twitter.com/kaepora/status/210366514442932224 Or I pastebin'd the article for you or anyone else curious: http://pastebin.com/hKkLBMFp http://pastebin.com/hKkLBMFp
- phene 14y agoIf it's open source, why would the agents be asking what algorithms it uses? I'm calling bullshit on this article and the tweets.
- sashahart 14y agoIf it is like the interrogation I have gotten from developed countries outside the US, they are asking questions about what you do and what brings you to their country, and the questioning can be somewhat adversarial. Which nobody likes.
- soupboy 14y agoI know this is almost impossible, but can it be that the interrogator with 22 years of computer experience asked him those questions out of professional curiosity. Again, even I think it highly unlikely to have been the case. But were I to end up in some other profession after 22 years of computer experience, even I would be interested in knowing which algorithms were used and what the philosophical implications are for such a program.
- jcoder 14y agoThe claim is that they detained him and confiscated his passport.
- aggronn 14y agothat alone is not something worth fussing over. it happens a lot, and to people much less and more interesting than this guy.
- rst 14y agoIf anything, that would make it worse --- it's anything but proper for law enforcement officers to detain people on a whim to satisfy "professional curiosity".
- sneak 14y agoIf they NSL his Gmail, now they have the email addresses and frequency graphs of everyone with whom he communicates.
- fijal 14y agoOk. Maybe people leaving in the US don't know about that, but spending time with US border officials is absolutely normal on the entry to the US. I travel to the US about once a year, and my times spent on the border look roughly like this (sorted, in hours) - 0, 0, 1, 1, 3.
- sashahart 14y agoIf you travel frequently across borders, you will often be taken aside and asked questions. It is mind-numbingly common, it has happened to me in Schiphol (EU) several times. Very annoying, but not at all the same as people being beaten and censored and put into gulags for mild civil forms of political dissent. Let's not trivialize real totalitarianism in our haste to condemn stupid airport security theatre.
- panarky 14y agoThis is different from routine security nonsense. This developer was specifically questioned about his open-source projects. If DHS is targeting people when they travel just because they work on information security, that's pretty chilling.
- aggronn 14y agoWe don't really know what questions he asked. For all we know, the developer has a bone to pick and is grossly exaggerating his claims. Guard: "What do you do for a living?" Dev: "Software developer on a secure chat app" Dev later claims he was interrogated about his work. In regards to the specific question about the algorithm and the interrogator knowing something about computers, isn't it possible that he was personally interested in and asked while he had the chance to talk to someone who was familiar with that stuff?
- cldrope 14y agoWhile I'm generally the tin hat wearer in my circles, it's perfectly logical that he was just curious. If he had computer science experience he may have had a legitimate interest in it. That said, he may not have been a programmer, thus the open source part eluding him. If it was the government they could just...look at the source.
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- X-Istence 14y agoI wonder if I will subjected to the same sort of questioning ... I am developing crypto software for my day job.
- mfer 14y agoCrypto software is subject to export controls for many countries. If you are going to distribute it as open source (or across borders from where it was developed) you should become familiar with the laws and regulations for your circumstance. For the US there is a wikipedia post at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_...
- Nrsolis 14y agoI've worked in INFOSEC (of a sort) before and now I generally work on routing platforms. One thing that I've been schooled in pretty carefully is the law as is pertains to import/export of cryptographic technology. Some folks here might not be familiar with the plight of Phil Zimmerman, who had the bright idea to invent PGP when there was a real chance that ALL crypto in the US would be fiercely regulated by the federal government. For his trouble, he was under indictment for something like 3 years while the federales were deciding if he had broken any laws or not. His supposed crime: someone managed to get PGP out of the US. Not him...someone else. I guess they thought he helped them. SO this sort of thing isn't new; it's been going on for a while and there are lots of stories around about folks who decided to write books about secret crypto-loving agencies in the US and almost got arrested for doing so. To ignore the reality of the government's position/actions on this is to invite trouble. Your best answers to an agent of the government are always the ones that provide a true but ultimately useless answer. Never lie. I'm an US citizen, served in the military, and middle aged. On my last trip back from Toronto, I got flack from the border agent because my flight out was from LaGuardia but I was connecting through Philadelphia on my return. Border agent gets all inquisitive and asks how I'm supposed to get from PHL to LGA as if I'm trying to be subversive about it. I roll my eyes and show him my ticket from PHL to LGA and all of a sudden he realizes he's an idiot. Bear in mind, NONE OF THIS MATTERS. I'm a goddamn US citizen and I can enter anywhere I damn where please. Of course, I didn't ARGUE with him, I just showed him and went along my way. The less upset/indignant you act when being questioned, the less suspicious you look. That goes even if you've done nothing wrong and are completely within your rights.
- thatusertwo 14y agoI'm curious as to how they know he is a developer on the project? Is he vocal about his participation?
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- liamondrop 14y agoa perhaps over-embellished encounter as a means to get publicity for his app.
- horsehead 14y agoWhere in the hell in that article is there any attempt to get the border agents' side of the story? For all we know, this is entirely fabricated. While it very well may be true, this is shoddy journalism at its finest. Take this sentence, for example: "Apparently, a trip to the US now allegedly features a frightening round of intense interrogation by American border guards." Apparently? Apparently!?! Are you kidding me. Do some real journalism and stop quoting twitter.
- melvinmt 14y ago> If what you develop online or what you say online as it relates to Internet freedom could impact how you are treated at the Canada, US border, it certainly would make me think twice about coming in to the US. Come on, don't be so naive. Everybody knows that the border guards google your name when you're taken aside. That's probably how the guy with an "Arabic sounding name" ended up on the first page of results with his encrypted chat pet project and therefore got "interrogated" by border patrol by asking one question. The 1-hour extended interview with border patrol is not detaining someone, it's just common practice. Happened to me several times.
- losethos 14y agoGod says... the tail. And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: 4:5 That they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee. 4:6 And the LORD said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. 4:7 And he said, Put thine hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again; and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh. ---- I can toss a coin, but how on Earth would you see it? God says... 40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south. 40:3 And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate. 40:4 And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel. ---- He wants me to do a penny? That's insane. ROFLMAO. God's laughing.
- xxiao 14y agowe do live in a hypocrisy world, esp in US, just embrace that to make life easier. I am wondering, they have a database that connects your name with the OSS project you're on(or any projects for that matter)? and it pops out once they input your passport number? quite surprised.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoTo use the vernacular, this story doesn't 'scan'. The comment "It’s an open source encrypted, private alternative to other services such as Facebook chat." and then the comment from an alleged interrogator, “The interrogator (who claimed 22 years of computer experience) asked me which algorithms Cryptocat used and about its censorship resistance.” really set off some bells. If it's open source, then git/svn/cvs pull a copy of the repo and read the code. No need to interrogate the guy. And second the DHS doesn't have any history of going after folks simply because they write some open source software. Now could the guy be detained for other reasons? Sure. But this feels more like a troll to generate buzz for his app which seems to be on a few warez sites. My quick look at Github and Sourceforge didn't find it there.
- joshz 14y agoThe interrogator can claim whatever he wants, he may as well have 22 years of computer experience and be absolutely incompetent. From cryptocat front page: "Messages are encrypted inside your own browser using AES-256" Link to source on top right: https://project.crypto.cat/ https://project.crypto.cat/
- tlack 14y agoI agree that some elements of the story don't make sense. How many DHS/Immigration employees even know what a cryptographic algorithm is? Did the guy just happen to be sitting around when this guy attempted to cross the border? If the US was up to something, why would they randomly interview a person like this? Why not pull whatever they need to know from their massive surveillance databases - surely that would be more accurate than whatever this guy would say under duress.
- albertsun 14y agohttps://github.com/kaepora/cryptocat https://github.com/kaepora/cryptocat That's the second Google search result for Cryptocat.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoWow, I went back in my browsing history here to figure out what I did and I had typed 'CryptocHat' rather than 'Cryptocat' (guess my eyes/fingers are just installing the H without my approval).
- jayro 14y agoUnfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. "The filmmaker: Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, whose recent films include “My Country, My Country,” about the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and “The Oath,” which was filmed in Yemen. Since 2006, Poitras has been detained and questioned at airports at least 40 times. She has had her computer and reporter’s notebooks confiscated and presumably copied, without a warrant. The most recent time, April 5, she took notes during her detention. The agents told her to stop, as they considered her pen a weapon." ... "He [Jacob Appelbaum - a computer security researcher for the nonprofit organization the Tor Project (torproject.org)] has been detained at least a dozen times at airports: “I was put into a special room, where they frisked me, put me up against the wall. ... Another one held my wrists. ... They implied that if I didn’t make a deal with them, that I’d be sexually assaulted in prison. ... They took my cellphones, they took my laptop. They wanted, essentially, to ask me questions about the Iraq War, the Afghan War, what I thought politically.” http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/4/26/the_nsa_is_watching_you http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/4/26/the_nsa_is_watchi... * Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. Airports [Video w/ Transcript] http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/detained_in_the_us_filmmaker_laura http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/detained_in_the_us_fil... * "We Don’t Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance [Video w/ Transcript] http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/we_do_not_live_in_a http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/we_do_not_live_in_a * Whistleblower: The NSA is Lying–U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails [Video w/ Transcript] http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/whistleblower_the_nsa_is_lying_us http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/whistleblower_the_nsa_...
- vparat 14y agoI'm wondering after reading the article if I should be worried with the app I wrote, http://www.selinked.com http://www.selinked.com to learn nodejs and mongodb. It's a dead drop sort of thing with chatting, all encrypted on the frontend so nothing get's transmitted in the clear. It's not open source per se but all of the magic happens on the front end so you can see the code. Backend just manages sockets and stores encrypted data. When writing it it did cross mind that governments could have an issue with it but after seeing that I was not the first one to do this I figured I was ok. Now I'm starting to reconsider this position, I already get enough shit at the airports due to the fact I'm a green card holder and treated as a third rate citizen, don't need more.
- planetguy 14y agoThe impression I get is that if the US actually wants to ask you about something then they'll do it for more than an hour. They'll fly in someone from the NSA to meet you at the border, he'll probably make you comfortable and have a nice little chat with you and it will become a big deal. Getting stuck at the border for an hour is a sufficiently short time, in the bureaucratic system, that we can assume they didn't really care. In all probability it was just some random border guard who really did have a CS background and was excited to get a chance to use it.
- eridius 14y agoSomeone with "22 years of computer experience" and knows about encryption algorithms doesn't become a border guard.
- planetguy 14y agoBut if they do, they're bitter enough to want to interrogate every programmer who comes through their station.
- rdl 14y agoWhy not? Work in the military for 20 years (ok, 22) in a communications or IT capacity, retire, collect pension. 20 years of military computer experience doesn't necessarily make you an expert or even employable, sadly. You then get preferential hiring for other positions in the government, especially law enforcement. Working for ICE/CBP wouldn't be a horrible job (if you could do it for a few days a month, I think it would be fun -- you're basically the first contact a visitor has with the US, and you get to meet lots of interesting people from around the world. In most countries, this is a particularly well respected job, a whole lot better than being deep in the bowels of government bureaucracy.)
- sebsauvage 14y agoWith my client-side encrypted pastebin & discussion board, I'm not going to the USA anytime soon. ( http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin )
- drone 14y agoGiven that we'll only ever get one side of the story, and that side of the story being interpreted a certain way would certainly bring favor to the author, how can we actually presume that the few tweets he made really gives us the whole picture? I mean, this is a guy who is, by what appears to be his own admissions on twitter, a "internet freedom activitist," who just got done talking at a conference about his software. This would be a great PR icing on the cake. I'm not saying it's manufactured, but I have just as much evidence for that as I do to the contrary based on the information presented.
- rorrr 14y agoHe needs to sue the government.
- tnash 14y agoCould it be related to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U... I remember in my college security class our prof recommended that if we left the country we didn't bring any sort of cryptography work with us. I'm not a lawyer so I don't quite understand the legal ramifications.
- bobowzki 14y agoWhich algorithm it's using... why don't they just read the code?
- antidoh 14y agoHow long until foreign businesses and governments prohibit key people from visiting or transiting the US?