[privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices

[Blanchard_Michael at emc.com]

Heheh, I've done worse than that on principal alone ;-)

   but, of course, it would have to depend upon my mood at the time too....  But I surely wouldn't log in for them and allow them to check anything.  I'll turn on the laptop, let them see the login prompt to verify it's a real laptop, and that would be as far as they see, nothing more.

   What if I'm coming back from doing a security assesment for a company that we're going to purchase, and part of that is checking out their web presence while I'm over there?  I'm bound by NDA not to disclose anything about that M&A, and by the TSA folks even seeing that I went to their web site may be in violation of that NDA.  So I can potentially loose my job, and wind up in court myself if I violate an NDA, just so TSA can see what web sites I've been going to?  I don't think so....

  Yah, they'll have a fight on their hands....

  Mike B  

Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 



> _____________________________________________ 
> From: 	Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu] 
> Sent:	Friday, February 08, 2008 11:53 AM
> To:	Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec)
> Cc:	fergdawg at netzero.net; privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
> Subject:	Re: [privacy] U.S. Agents Seize Travelers' Devices
> 
> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:15:41 EST, Blanchard_Michael at emc.com said:
> 
> > Unless they have a summons, there's no way I'm logging in and allowing them
> > access to my or my companies computer systems.  They'd be in for a fight I'm
> > afraid with me.  The first person I'd be on the phone with is our company lawyer.
> 
> You willing to spend days there waiting for it to get resolved? (And are there
> any shops that sell food on the *outside* side of the Customs checkpoint?  That
> may enter into your decision...)
> 
> 
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