Halvar Flake Denied Entry to U.S. for BlackHat
Larry Seltzer writes on Cheap Hack:
It's all over some stupid technicality of the contract with BlackHat being with him personally and not his company. In the process of interrogating him over it DHS actually asked why the training he's doing couldn't be performed by an American citizen. I'm speechless. Flake will now need to get a Business visa from the US embassy, a process that can take a long time.More here.
Without going into specifics, this isn't the only story I've heard lately about DHS stifling computer security research. Flake's problems seem to be the reactionary stupidity of some officials on the ground, whereas the other I've heard of were more political. In either event, the result is government at its worst.
Also: More here on Zero Day.
posted by Fergie @ 7/29/2007 12:49:00 PM
1 Comments:
What a load. They deny him entry because he might be doing a job an american could do (which is certainly arguable)?
Where are these people when my cell phone company decides to hand out countless american jobs to clueless folks in Bangalore?
Our country is so screwed...
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