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Whitehat hacker's laptop, cellphones seized and searched
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Whitehat Hacker Moxie Marlinspike's Laptop, Cellphones Seized| from the why-do-you-hate-america dept.| posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, @01:06 (Privacy)| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/11/20/0332243/Whitehat-Hacker-Moxie-Marlinspikes-Laptop-Cellphones-Seized?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Orome1 writes "The well-known whitehat hacker and security researcher whogoes by the handle [0]Moxie Marlinspike has recently experiencedfirsthand the electronic device search that travelers are sometimessubmitted to by border agents when entering the country. He was returningfrom the Dominican Republic by plane, and when he landed at JFK airport,he was greeted by two US Customs officials and taken to a detention roomwhere they kept him for almost five hours, took his laptop and two cellphones and asked for the passwords needed to access the encryptedmaterial on them."
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Schneier on Security: TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA| from the sees-right-through-them dept.| posted by Soulskill on Friday November 19, @18:08 (Transportation)| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/19/2126204/Bruce-Schneier-vs-the-TSA?from=newsletter+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An anonymous reader writes "Bruce Schneier has [0]posted a huge recap ofthe controversy over TSA body scanners, including more information about[1]the lawsuit he joined to ban them. There's too much news to summarize,but it covers everything from [2]Penn Jillette's and [3]Dave Barry'sgrope stories, to [4]Israeli experts who say this isn't needed and hasn'tever stopped a bomb, to the [5]three-year-old girl who was traumatized bybeing groped and much, much more." Another reader passed along a relatedarticle, which says, "Congressman Ron Paul lashed out at the TSAyesterday and [6]introduced a bill aimed at stopping federal abuse ofpassengers. Paul’s proposed legislation would pave the way for TSAemployees to be sued for feeling up Americans and putting them throughunsafe naked body scanners."
Discuss this story at: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/19/2126204&from=newsletter
Links: 0. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html?nc=96 1. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/05/158250/EPIC-Files-Lawsuit-To-Suspend-Airport-Body-Scanner-Use 2. http://www.pennandteller.com/03/coolstuff/penniphile/roadpennfederalvip.html 3. http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2010/11/groin-update.html 4. http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=2941610&sponsor= 5. http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/17/1620203/TSA-Pats-Down-3-Year-Old 6. http://www.tgdaily.com/event-coverage-brief/52602-new-bill-aims-to-eliminate-tsa-scanning-groping -
IT hiring stays woefully slow, except network and virtual specialists
jfruhlinger writes "There was a predicted uptick in IT hiring for latethis year, but it's mid-November and it hasn't happened yet. KevinFogarty does see growth in one area, though: [0]cloud and virtualizationexperts are being fought over, lured away from in-house jobs to cloudconsultancies popping up everywhere."
Discuss this story at: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/11/18/032251&from=newsletter
Links: 0. http://www.itworld.com/career/127908/it-hiring-stays-woefully-slow-except-network-and-virtual-specialists
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