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Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices
From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:15:41 -0500
Unless they have a summons, there's no way I'm logging in and allowing them access to my or my companies computer systems. They'd be in for a fight I'm afraid with me. The first person I'd be on the phone with is our company lawyer. Mike B Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ferguson [mailto:fergdawg () netzero net] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:06 PM To: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org Subject: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Via The Washington Post. [snip] Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse. Her daughter, waiting outside San Francisco International Airport, tried repeatedly to call her during the hour and a half she was questioned. But after her phone was returned, Mango saw that records of her daughter's calls had been erased. A few months earlier in the same airport, a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type his password into his laptop computer. "This laptop doesn't belong to me," he remembers protesting. "It belongs to my company." Eventually, he agreed to log on and stood by as the officer copied the Web sites he had visited, said the engineer, a U.S. citizen who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of calling attention to himself. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR200802060 4763.html Also: The Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for denying access to public records on the questioning and searches of travelers at U.S. borders. Filed under the Freedom of Information Act, the suit responds to growing complaints by U.S. citizens and immigrants of excessive or repeated screenings by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/07 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Paul Ferguson (Feb 07)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Larry Seltzer (Feb 07)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Blanchard_Michael (Feb 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Blanchard_Michael (Feb 08)
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- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Blanchard_Michael (Feb 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Rob Thompson (Feb 08)
- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Julio Canto (Feb 09)
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- Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices Paul Ferguson (Feb 08)