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.
#CHAT SKINS FOR CRYPTOCAT SOFTWARE#
"But when the software could be used closer to home, they target developers like they are one step away from terrorists. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails * "We Don’t Live in a Free Country": Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance * Detained in the U.S.: Filmmaker Laura Poitras Held, Questioned Some 40 Times at U.S. They wanted, essentially, to ask me questions about the Iraq War, the Afghan War, what I thought politically.” They took my cellphones, they took my laptop. They implied that if I didn’t make a deal with them, that I’d be sexually assaulted in prison. "He 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. The agents told her to stop, as they considered her pen a weapon." The most recent time, April 5, she took notes during her detention. She has had her computer and reporter’s notebooks confiscated and presumably copied, without a warrant. Since 2006, Poitras has been detained and questioned at airports at least 40 times. occupation of Iraq, and “The Oath,” which was filmed in Yemen. "The filmmaker: Laura Poitras is an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, whose recent films include “My Country, My Country,” about the U.S.
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.
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