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Former Mozilla CTO Subjected to Warrantless Phone Search

posted by Fnord666 on Friday April 05 2019, @07:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-one-is-immune dept.

canopic jug writes:

Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal has filed a complaint against US customs agents for aggressive interrogation and demanding the passcodes for his phones and laptops and denying him access to an attorney. His expedited Global Entry status was revoked for allegedly refusing to comply with the search. Andreas and the ACLU are requesting an investigation into the incident. He works for Apple these days.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday April 05 2019, @02:11PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday April 05 2019, @02:11PM (#824899) Journal

    It is true that we have sacrificed freedom for security. And we should not have.

    Trying to protect American citizens is a goal. But there will always be terrorists. You cannot absolutely guarantee security. Just how "open" of a society we want to have becomes a question.

    But on the topic of trading freedom for security, I will paraphrase two famous people:

    "those who trade freedom for security deserve and will have neither" -- Benjamin Franklin

    but a more famous and influential person once long ago said . . .

    "meesa thinks weesa should grant the chancellor emergency powers" -- Jar Jar Binks

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @02:20AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @02:20AM (#828845)

    The American Colonists who dumped the crates in the Boston Tea Party. The British literally called them Terrorists, big T. I don't remember a specific link right now, but the revolutionaries were called out as terrorists for the length of the war and many years thereafter.

    I find it ironic then that America has been so loose with the term terrorism in the years since, routinely using it on people we call freedom fighters, or allies one week, and then terrorists the next, before calling them friends once more (See: Rojava and the YPG/Other Kurdish groups, maybe some DO qualify, but definitely not all of them from the point of attacking civilians. If you are hitting military or political targets that is not terrorism.)