Thomas Dullien es un experto alemán en seguridad informática que se dirigÃa a las conferencias Black Hat para especialistas, pero nunca llegó a su destino: le detuvieron en el aeropuerto tras ver el material que traÃa consigo para ofrecer un curso práctico.
El hacker tiene el alias de “Halvar Flake”, y al parecer el problema fue que en su petición de visado informó de que iba a dar el curso como si fuera ciudadano de los EEUU cuando en realidad lo darÃa como representante de una empresa. De hecho, es CEO de Sabre Security.
Nueve horas de vuelo y cuatro horas y media de interrogatorio con los agentes de aduanas acabaron con un resultado extraño: su vuelta a casa tras denegársele el permiso para entrar en los EEUU.
Como afirman en ZDNet, Dullen ya llevaba 7 años asistiendo a estas conferenicas, y ya se habÃa convertido en uno de los conferenciantes que realizar cursillos prácticos durante el evento.
En su blog ADD/XOR/XOL explica toda su odisea.
Más información [ZDNET]
AUSSIE HACKERS have figured out a way of putting Apple’s Iphone on the nation’s Telstra network.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the hack, by a bloke called ozbimmer, is of limited use as you cannot use it to receive calls or send SMS messages. However it is the first one to unlock the Iphone for use outside the AT&T mobile network in the US.
Jon Johansen hacked the device to allow users to bypass the AT&T network to use the phone’s wireless internet and music features, but the phone function remained disabled until now.
Australia is unlikely to see an Iphone down under until next year. Ironically the company which is the frontrunner for Apple’s exclusive contract will be Telstra because the iPhone cannot manage 3G networks.
Steps on how to unlock the phone can still be found in a message ozbimmer posted to the hackint0sh online message board.
It involves creating your own SIM card using information taken from both the AT&T SIM card that comes with the iPhone and a Telstra SIM card.
More information [SMH]
A BLOKE WHO who was going to run a training session at the Blackhat conference was turned aside by US immigration because they claimed he needed a work permit.
Halvar Flake was denied entry to the US for carrying trainings materials for the Blackhat trainings, and intending to hold these trainings as a private citizen instead of as a company.
Writing in his bog he said he was told that he could not return to the US on the visa waiver program so chances are he will not be back for a while.
Flack said that every time he came to the US, he told them he was making a presentation to a conference and hold a trainings classes.
This time he was stopped and interrogated for nearly five hours about who he was and what the nature of my contract with Blackhat is.
The American officials seemed to believe that since their country knew all about Interweb security there was no reason why they needed any Johnny Foreigners to tell them how to do it. They wanted to know why an American could not conduct the training classes.
Ironically if there has been an agreement between his company and Blackhat, then his entry to the US would’ve been “German-company-sends-guy-to-US-to-perform-services”, and everything would’ve been fine. Unfortunately that would take a few weeks to organise.
More information [addxorrol]
