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| Researcher detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks | |
| 2010-08-02 | |
| LAS VEGAS -- Jacob Appelbaum, US citizen, computer programmer & security researcher, also involved with the Wikileaks Web site, was detained at the US border (US customs at the Newark airport) for three hours and questioned about the controversial whistleblower project as he entered the country on Thursday to attend a hacker conference, sources said on Saturday. He was also approached by two FBI agents at the Defcon conference after his presentation on Saturday afternoon. In Newark his laptop was taken and then returned. 3 mobile phones he brought with him were seized. After he was released he made his presentation at DefCon. Then two casually dressed men identified themselves as FBI agents and asked to talk to him. Appelbaum asked when his equipment would be returned, and declined to speak further with them after getting no answer. A few weeks earlier in mid-July Appelbaum had presented at a New York hacker conference. There he urged the largely sympathetic audience to support Wikileaks by volunteering or by donating money and boasted that Wikileaks remains uncensorable. "You can try to take us down... but you can't stop us," he said. He also challenged modern U.S. foreign policy and called for civil disobedience by way of exposing heavily guarded secrets. Appelbaum told that earlier audience that although he's significantly involved in Wikileaks, he has no access to classified U.S. data that may have been sent to the site.
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| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #3 shouldn't he be on the no fly list? although I've lost what little confidence I had with airport security. I got through with a knife I didn't realize I still had in my backpack but they confiscated my shampoo, sunscreen and shower gel. |
| Posted by: Jan from work 2010-08-02 12:03 |
| #2 hard drive mirrored? Check passwords grabbed? Check Email addresses DL'd? Check GPS inserted? Check Hokay, off you go |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-08-02 08:24 |
| #1 MP3 audio only file of Appelbaum's July 17th speech to New Hope in NYC. (42 MB, 1:42 long) At the Saturday 1300 link titled Keynote Address - Wikileaks, choose your type MP3. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-08-02 01:10 |