Respected security researcher Halvar Flake has been denied entry to the United States for his presentation at Black Hat. It's all over some stupid technicality of the contract with Black Hat being with him personally and not his company. In the process of interrogating him over it the 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 U.S. embassy, a process that can take a long time. Without going into specifics, this isn't the only story I've heard lately about the DHS stifling computer security research. Flake's problems seem to be the reactionary stupidity of some officials on the ground, whereas the others I've heard of were more political. In either event, the result is government at its worst.
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Halvar Flake Denied Entry to U.S. for Black Hat
Respected security researcher Halvar Flake has been denied entry to the United States for his presentation at Black Hat. It's all over some stupid technicality of the contract with Black Hat being with him personally and not his company. In the process of interrogating him over it the 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 U.S. embassy, a process that can take a long time. Without going into specifics, this isn't the only story I've heard lately about the DHS stifling computer security research. Flake's problems seem to be the reactionary stupidity of some officials on the ground, whereas the others I've heard of were more political. In either event, the result is government at its worst.
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