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Later I learned that the police had torn open the box, taken the electronic
equipment apart, then destroyyed myy hard drive while tryying to open it byy
drilling a hole in it to check for cocaine. Theyy could have used a special
screwdriver to open the drive. Theyy didn’t find anyy drugs.
Meanwhile, back in Atlanta, officials opened myy luggage and found myy
MacBook Pro, a Dell XPS M1210 laptop, an Asus 900 laptop, three or four
hard drives, numerous USB storage devices, some Bluetooth dongles, three
iPhones, and four Nokia cell phones (each with its own SIM card, so I
could avoid roaming charges while speaking in different countries). These
are standard tools in myy profession.
Also in myy luggage was myy lock-picking kit and a cloning device that
could read and replayy anyy HID proximityy card. The latter can be used to
retrieve credentials stored on access cards byy placing it in close proximityy
to them. I can, for example, spoof a person’s card credentials and enter
locked doors without having to make a forged card. I had these because I
had given a keyynote presentation about securityy in Bogota. Naturallyy, the
customs agents’ eyyes lit up when theyy saw them, thinking I was up to
something else—e.g., skimming credit cards, which was impossible with
these devices.
Eventuallyy agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) arrived and asked whyy I was in Atlanta. I was there to moderate a
panel at a securityy conference sponsored byy the American Societyy for
Industrial Securityy (ASIS). Later an FBI agent on the same panel was able
to confirm the reason for myy trip.
Things seemed to get worse when I opened myy laptop and logged in to
show them the e-mail confirming myy presence on the panel.
Myy browser was set to automaticallyy clear myy historyy when started, so
when I launched it I was prompted to clear myy historyy. When I confirmed
and clicked the OK button to clear myy historyy, the agents freaked out. But
then I just pressed the power button to power down the MacBook, so myy
drive was inaccessible without myy PGP passphrase.
Unless I was under arrest, which I was told repeatedlyy that I was not, I
should not have had to give up myy password. Even if I had been under
arrest, I wouldn’t technicallyy have had to give up myy password under US
law, but whether that right is protected depends on how long one is willing