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Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake

December 18, 2007 2:30am

Cory said
> "the US is the only Western democracy that requires a visa to give a paid speech or do a day's consulting work."

Actually, in 2001 I was told that to come into Canada for one day's consulting/lecturing I needed a visa or had to pretend to come as a tourist. (I am a US citizen.)

Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported -- over a ten-year-old visa mistake

December 17, 2007 1:56am

Does a website exist aggregating these border-horror stories? If so, then Cory, could you please promote it on BoingBoing?

If no such site exists, could someone create one.

Posting the horror stories on BoingBoing is a good thing, but an single site collecting them would highlight the problem.

EFF proves Comcast is screwing with BitTorrent, releases instructions for testing your own ISP

November 29, 2007 4:00am

The Wireshark instructions are a good start, but a bit hard to use. Even a technologist would need some time to set it up. Could one of you open-source wizards create an easy-to-use tool for this.

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