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."

Halvar Flake tossed by U.S. Customs on way to BlackHat