Comments on: US Customs Owns Your Data? http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/ Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing & Computer Security Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:04:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: eM3rC http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-112110 eM3rC Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:41:53 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-112110 That is very interesting. (Both points) The Did You Know is why the UN was checking all the fertilizer plants in Afghanistan and Iraq. Higher levels of chemicals could be a telltale sign of bomb production in progress. Anarchist's Cookbook is a terrorists bed time buddy. That is very interesting. (Both points)

The Did You Know is why the UN was checking all the fertilizer plants in Afghanistan and Iraq. Higher levels of chemicals could be a telltale sign of bomb production in progress.

Anarchist’s Cookbook is a terrorists bed time buddy.

]]> By: zupakomputer http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-112080 zupakomputer Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:44 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-112080 Pilot subduction: announce the mini-bar is on happy hour, or use a credit card like Burt Renyolds in Heat. DidYouKnows#216-888-42: chemical fertilisers were mass-produced to facilitate the construction of nitroglycerine bombs. Pilot subduction: announce the mini-bar is on happy hour, or use a credit card like Burt Renyolds in Heat.

DidYouKnows#216-888-42: chemical fertilisers were mass-produced to facilitate the construction of nitroglycerine bombs.

]]> By: eM3rC http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111840 eM3rC Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:47:33 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111840 @zupacomputer That was a great post. Thing is you could just keep like plastic explosives in a toothpaste tube and a fuse in some other part of your luggage although I'm not sure what you could use to subdue the pilots. Maybe a rubber duck... Anyway, can't wait to see what happens if I have to bring my instrument with me on some trip. (36 feet of tubing and a ton of slides) @zupacomputer
That was a great post. Thing is you could just keep like plastic explosives in a toothpaste tube and a fuse in some other part of your luggage although I’m not sure what you could use to subdue the pilots. Maybe a rubber duck…

Anyway, can’t wait to see what happens if I have to bring my instrument with me on some trip. (36 feet of tubing and a ton of slides)

]]> By: zupakomputer http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111751 zupakomputer Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:25:32 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111751 The cavity search is the one I find most ugly - frankly I don't care what anyone would hide up there; they can keep it there. I can't imagine what kind of person would want to perform such a search. It's one of those things where I very happily encourage the use of some type of x-ray of the person - if I was going to conceal anything anyway it sure wouldn't be there. I've never had problems with customs myself, although one time I took a musical instrument on a flight and they were very interested in that. Then I realised it must have looked like an automatic weapon - all the parts laid out in a case. Some of the things banned recently were totally ridiculous though - bottles of liquid for example. Like anyone's going to sit assembling bombs on the headrest trays, and use a curly straw to condense or distill fuels or accelerants. "Steward, he's syphoning freon or something from the toilets to make bombs." The cavity search is the one I find most ugly – frankly I don’t care what anyone would hide up there; they can keep it there. I can’t imagine what kind of person would want to perform such a search.

It’s one of those things where I very happily encourage the use of some type of x-ray of the person – if I was going to conceal anything anyway it sure wouldn’t be there.

I’ve never had problems with customs myself, although one time I took a musical instrument on a flight and they were very interested in that. Then I realised it must have looked like an automatic weapon – all the parts laid out in a case.

Some of the things banned recently were totally ridiculous though – bottles of liquid for example. Like anyone’s going to sit assembling bombs on the headrest trays, and use a curly straw to condense or distill fuels or accelerants. “Steward, he’s syphoning freon or something from the toilets to make bombs.”

]]> By: eM3rC http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111577 eM3rC Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:57:26 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111577 -Quick note- Thanks for the controversial article Darknet! -Quick note-
Thanks for the controversial article Darknet!

]]> By: eM3rC http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111576 eM3rC Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:56:34 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111576 @goodpeople Didn't you know that terrorists can throw darts at very high speeds and can aim more precisely with darts than knifes? ;) Sorry about your loss. @J. Lion Still... What are the odds of finding something vs going through people's personal information? @goodpeople
Didn’t you know that terrorists can throw darts at very high speeds and can aim more precisely with darts than knifes? ;)

Sorry about your loss.

@J. Lion
Still… What are the odds of finding something vs going through people’s personal information?

]]> By: J. Lion http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111405 J. Lion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:41:55 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111405 @goodpeople Darts were weapons back in the stone age http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon @goodpeople

Darts were weapons back in the stone age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon

]]> By: J. Lion http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111403 J. Lion Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:33:46 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111403 US Custom agent does not seems to own your data - not if it is encrypted! In Child Porn Case, a Digital Dilemma http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503663.html?nav=hcmodule ha.ckers.org has some follow up discussions on it. Self Incrimination or Privacy http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20080127/self-incrimination-or-privacy/ US Custom agent does not seems to own your data – not if it is encrypted!

In Child Porn Case, a Digital Dilemma
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503663.html?nav=hcmodule

ha.ckers.org has some follow up discussions on it.
Self Incrimination or Privacy
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20080127/self-incrimination-or-privacy/

]]> By: goodpeople http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111397 goodpeople Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:23:38 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111397 Flying to the US cost me a set of darts once. And that was in '95. I guess a pointy thing weighing 22 grams with which you throw at a board made of horsehair has been considered a lethal weapon for a long time... Flying to the US cost me a set of darts once. And that was in ‘95. I guess a pointy thing weighing 22 grams with which you throw at a board made of horsehair has been considered a lethal weapon for a long time…

]]> By: eM3rC http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111175 eM3rC Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:15:31 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/02/us-customs-owns-your-data/#comment-111175 I noticed that also. They also give everyone metal silverware for the international flights. I guess they assume terrorists would get lost trying to get to the cockpit. I noticed that also. They also give everyone metal silverware for the international flights. I guess they assume terrorists would get lost trying to get to the cockpit.

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