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Jim Harper Responds to My Comments on Fingerprinting Foreigners at the Border

2008-12-12 06:21:28 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...border is a trivial security against terrorism because terrorists are fungible. Turning away a known terrorist merely inconveniences a terrorist group, which just has to recruit someone different. The 9/11 attacks were conducted for the most part by people who had no known record of terrorism and who arrived on visas granted to them by the...
 
Tags: border, biometric border security, border biometrics, benefit, negligible benefit, mild inconvenience, inconvenience, attacks, terrorists
 
 
 
 
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Laptops can be seized at the US border

2008-08-01 18:28:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...border. Will this will increase the propensity of folks to encrypt their laptops or reduce it (thereby reducing suspicion)? I don't think businesses will look at this as another reason to encrypt - the majority would rather data not be stolen or lost than think about what a border agent might find on that machine For folks who have personal...
 
Tags: border, laptops, border agent, folks, folks cross, analyze laptops, homeland security, encrypt, personal machines
 
 
 
 
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10 Gigabit Ethernet secures border at Niagara Falls

2008-01-21 00:00:00 by Jim Duffy in Network World on Security
 
Case study of Niagara Falls Bridge Commission and its Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet network for securing the U.S./Canadian border
 
Tags: gigabit, gigabit ethernet network, canadian border, study
 
 
 
 
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Finally? :-) Laptop Contents Border Searches

2008-02-12 15:09:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...border ") is pretty scary - even for those who claim that "privacy is dead; get over it" :-) Why is it scary, if you don't have anything "illegal" on your laptop? I dunno, but it feels scary More discussion is here and on - wow! - TSA blog About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: pretty scary, scary, laptop, feels scary, tsa blog, border, dunno, computers, suitcase
 
 
 
 
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Travel group warns: Corporate data at risk from laptop searches at border

2008-04-30 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A business travelers group is warning its members to limit how much proprietary business data they have on their laptops and other devices amid fears the information could be made public if border agents seize it during searches
 
Tags: devices amid fears, proprietary business data, business travelers, border agents, laptops, information, public, limit
 
 
 
 
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Security ahead of risk at the border

2008-05-05 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b41c24 in Network World on Security
 
...Border Protection (CBP) can continue its practice of warrantless searches through computer data held by U.S. citizens and foreigners alike. With no cause or suspicion, the CBP may inspect, copy or seize data devices carried by anyone returning to the U.S. I'm not convinced that passive compliance is the best response to this situation
 
Tags: computer data held, business travelers, foreigners alike, cbp, border protection, passive compliance, circuit court, data devices, sensitive information
 
 
 
 
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Senators question border laptop searches

2008-06-25 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Two U.S. senators called on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to back off its assertion that it can search laptops and other electronic devices owned by U.S. citizens returning to the country without the need for reasonable suspicion of a crime or probable cause
 
Tags: electronic devices owned, border protection, reasonable suspicion, senators, country, laptops, cbp, customs, crime
 
 
 
 
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Privacy group: US border-crossing database raises concerns

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
A plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information in a database for 15 years could have huge privacy implications for U.S. residents, one privacy group said
 
Tags: privacy, information, collect personal information, huge privacy implications, border protection, database, country, traveler, cbp
 
 
 
 
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Border Gateway Protocol Might Be Exploited On Previously Presumed To Be Unavailable Scale

2008-08-27 16:18:48 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
...Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the
 
Tags: border gateway protocol, internet, internet traffic, attacker surreptitiously monitor, national security agency, scale previously, tactic exploits, unavailable, protocol bgp