For the next 4 1/2 hours I was interviewed about who exactly I am, why I am coming to the US, what the nature of my contract with Blackhat is, and why my trainings class is not performed by an American citizien. After 4 hours, it became clear that a decision had been reached that I was to be denied entry to the US, on the ground that since I am a private person conducting the trainings for Blackhat, I was essentially a Blackhat employee and would require an H1B visa to perform two days of trainings in the US.

U.S. Customs needs a 24/7 process where their agents can escallate a disagreement to someone who is not a complete fucking moron.

U.S. Customs needs a 24/7 process where their agents can escallate a disagreement to someone who is not a complete fucking moron.

Policies like this are only hurting the digilantis' out there and other security professionals like Halvar.

Digilanti
n. Combining digerati expertise with vigilante initiative, the digilanti anonymously police the Internet, exposing scams and fighting spam in the interest of making the Web safe without government intervention.

Hopefully some better policies come out of the EU discussion on cyber-crime.

Because what Germany is doing would be comparable to a U.S. State banning guns. "Guns don't kill people; people kill people"

I say "Hacker tools don't hack systems; hackers hack systems."