Electronics Confiscated at Border
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Travelers question search and seizure of laptops and cell phones, currently under court review.
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The federal government will soon offer passport cards equipped with electronic data chips to U.S. citizens who travel frequently between the United States and Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean. The cards can be read wirelessly from 20 feet, offering convenience to travelers but raising security and...
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The world's biggest electronics firms are working on systems to stop digital content being pirated.
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As RFID-chipped passports gain adoption around the world, successful attempts to crack them are on the rise as well. Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have already reported compromised data, while countries such as New Zealand remain sure it can't happen there. But what if the goal wasn't data theft but detonation?
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Ecuadorean computer technician Agustina Herrera paid people smugglers $14,000 to slip into the United States illegally two years ago, swimming the Rio Grande, tramping through swamps and nearly dying from snake bites.
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Visitors could face digital fingerprinting at airports under plans to beef up border security
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There's a lot of high-tech monitoring going on behind the scenes at the busy border crossing, including some 170 cameras that generate between 42.5M bit/sec. and 53M bit/sec. of traffic on the network.
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(InfoWorld) - Taiwan issued a warning to local companies not to export electronics components and other items that could be used to make military equipment to Iran or North Korea, promising penalties for failure to comply. "We have had a few cases recently where customs officials have caught sensitive products that were to be exported, and told the companies that they needed to gain permission to export such items to these countries. None of those items got past customs," said James Wu, deputy director general of Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade. It's an important reminder for Taiwanese companies because the island is one of the world's largest suppliers of high tech components such as semiconductors and PC parts, including DRAM (dynamic RAM) and motherboards, as well as precision tools. Taiwanese companies also engage in trade with North Korea, Iran, and other countries deemed high risk for the export of certain items that can be used to make military hardware. The government sent out a statement to companies and posted a notice on its Web site as a reminder that certain electronic components, chemicals, and machine tools can be used to make weapons, and therefore cannot be exported to North Korea and Iran. The list of controlled items includes consumer electronics devices such as computers, laser printers, optical disc drives, digital mobile phones and digital cameras, as well as industrial products such as silicon wafers and manufacturing robots and more unusual items such as heavy water or mushroom spawn containing narcotics. Last year, the government increased the number of sensitive products to 542 items, from about 300 previously. The change was partly the result of talks with the U.S., according to the statement released Tuesday. Violators of the policy can face jail time if officials believe they intentionally tried to export sensitive items, or for repeat attempts. But in most cases, companies have unknowingly boxed up sensitive items to ship overseas, and were given warnings, Wu said. The government can also cancel or suspend a company's export license for failure to comply with the ban.
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PATNA, India  - Police in eastern India have seized 8 lbs (around 4 kg) of low-quality uranium after they arrested a a gang of smugglers near Nepal's border.
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A HOUSE in Armadale, West Lothian, has been raided after a lengthy internet investigation into the illegal trading of music for MP3 players on the auction site eBay. The investigation was carried out by the MCPS AntiPiracy Unit. Items seized included a computer and duplicating towers.
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CHERBOURG, France, Oct 6  - Police threw a heavy escort around a shipment of plutonium from US weapons arsenals as it was offloaded from a ship and taken by military convoy to a nuclear recycling plant in western France on Wednesday despite protests
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More than $500 million worth of  pirated software, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec  products, has been seized in a long-running joint probe by  Chinese police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,  officials from both countries said on Tuesday.
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Two civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, complaining that the agency&#39;s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division has routinely searched many U.S. citizens&#39; laptops and other electronic devices and questioned them about their religious practices and political beliefs.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian police confiscated$600,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency from a Medellin printingshop, the first time authorities have caught anyone using aprinting press to duplicate the new, hard to copy, $20 bill.
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Police in the north-east of England and Amsterdam close an international source of illegally-downloaded music.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Beijing Customs Officers Seize Around 70 Kg of Ivory Products" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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KUWAIT CITY -- Police have set up checkpoints and are toting machine guns and wearing body armor for the first time. Hotels have installed metal detectors. And the US Embassy has warned Americans to keep away from Western hangouts.