Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

[Rob Thompson <my.security.lists () gmail com>]

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Paul Ferguson wrote:
| 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.

This is what happens when you take a McDonald's caliber of employee and
give them a little bit of authority.  They're just getting even because
they chose poorly and realized it too late.

Quite a pity actually...  Personally, there's no way in hell they'da
gotten me to open the box.  That is personal and protected information, IMO.

If they aren't able to hack it on their own - breaking the law while
doing it, then they can't have it.

/me loves FDE...

|
| [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
|

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~ Engineering Architecture for the Internet
~ fergdawg(at)netzero.net
~ ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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