when do the death squads begin...... or.... have they already.?.
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Posted on 04/19/2015 8:59:46 PM PDT by QT3.14
Chris Roberts, a prominent computer security expert, was aboard a United Airlines flight last week when he tweeted about a potential security flaw he found on the plane’s on-board Wi-Fi. Big mistake.
Airline personnel saw the tweet and alerted authorities at Syracuse Hancock International Airport where the flight was scheduled to land. Roberts exited the plane and was quickly detained by the FBI. Roberts, the founder and chief technical officer of the Denver security firm One World Labs, said the agents questioned him, confiscated several of his electronic devices, and then let him go. “Lesson from this evening, don't mention planes,” he later tweeted. “[T]he feds ARE listening, nice crew in Syracuse, left there naked of electronics.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...
Problems may exist... but talking about them makes you a terrorist.
How did they see it so fast? Do they have a “tweet alert” implanted in their cranium?
What specific law did he violate?
I wonder just how airline personnel saw the tweet.
Looking over his shoulder physically at what he was typing, or does the wifi gear in the plane monitor the network traffic going through it ?
The story did not say.
Ah.... thought crimes.. emerge...
when do the death squads begin...... or.... have they already.?.
divulging specific info about locations ,, knowingly or not..
??
beats me.. I hardly ever fly
Shades of parallel construction, no doubt. He was a known security researcher, after all.
It may mean that if you are a passenger, the gubmint’ monitors your electronic device. Then again, these clowns couldn’t even defend the border.
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The man could conceivably be competent in some areas, but he clearly lacks the judgement to be employed in computer security the corporate level. This guy is a huge lawsuit or breach of contract waiting to happen and he should wind up newly unemployed.
But he has a net worth a hundred times yours. And he knows how to use a spell checker (twice).
They never had any intention of securing it.
Just a guess he had an @United Airlines on the tweet.
We don't enforce the borders and that benefits big business, the Democrat party and those Rinos who live off K St.
We do operate on the edge of due process (in this case clearly beyond) because it benefits big business. The idea that one more midair explosion might cause billions of dollars in air travel and billions more in broken business deals means that the government will move heaven and earth to prevent air terrorism.
The interesting question from a due process point of view is how do we manage on the spot decision-making by a host of intervenors from untrained ticket agents to air-traffic controllers and other federal agents who presumably are trained, to decide on the spot whether to risk 300 passengers lines or intrude on one man's constitutional rights.
We will need to build a body of rules and laws which provides for flexibility and yet protects our constitutional values and does not become so rigid that it is both arbitrary and expensive. The difficulty is setting standards which all of these intervenors can apply on the spot in real-time but which do not become bureaucratic and arbitrary.
About a month and a half ago, I was given the full TSA “treatment” at CLT, evidently because my last stop prior to that had been at a horse farm in NC, where I’d inadvertently picked up some “explosive” residue.
But the only part of it I actually minded was when I was asked by a TSA “Explosives Expert” if I were a “gun” advocate.
I answered with some shock that, “Yes, I’m a Second Amendment advocate, but I don’t have any weapons with me.”
That really stunned me. And it still really makes me angry to think that I should have been so questioned about a Constitutional right!
It is all soooo stupid. While the passenger plane has been shown to be interesting to towelheads, it is hardly the place to conduct real terrorism after 9/11. We are hardened to the loss of aircraft. More terror can and will be delivered for a much lower cost elsewhere thanks to the presence of hundreds if not thousands of low tech enemies that the government has welcomed into our country.
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We r monitoring ur tweetz.
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