Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
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Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
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Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#2Sorry, I am not following the news, much. What is the context here?
Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#3Are there people here who have worked at airport security of some country? I know we don't have much to go on, so I'm not looking for the truth. I'm wondering hypothetically: why / how could his entry be denied?
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#4My feeling is that I read stories like these pretty often. That somebody was denied entry or arrested or humiliated while entering the USA. Is this because it happens more often in the USA then in other countries? Or is there some kind of reporting bias at play?
Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#5Sorry, I am not following the news, much. What is the context here?
Seems like no reason was given.
Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#6Are there people here who have worked at airport security of some country? I know we don't have much to go on, so I'm not looking for the truth. I'm wondering hypothetically: why / how could his entry be denied?
I'm going to guess they looked up what cURL was and thought it was a tool for hacking.
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#7My guess would be that the US found some dodgy software that happened to make use of cURL, add flagged him as part of it, given what he's previously said about receiving emails from people that have found his details in other software: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#8My feeling is that I read stories like these pretty often. That somebody was denied entry or arrested or humiliated while entering the USA. Is this because it happens more often in the USA then in other countries? Or is there some kind of reporting bias at play?
This was at his local airport in Sweden. To quote some tweets:
"They denied me entry on ESTA with no explanation. Already at check-in in Sweden. =( or rather instead of check-in"
"I only got to the airport locally. My passport was flagged somehow so the airline wouldn't let me check in, called to ask why... So they say"
Edit: ESTA is this: https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
So the DHS denied him for some reason.
Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#9My feeling is that I read stories like these pretty often. That somebody was denied entry or arrested or humiliated while entering the USA. Is this because it happens more often in the USA then in other countries? Or is there some kind of reporting bias at play?
I guess a lot of people try to enter the US, some small proportion get rejected, and you hear about some small proportion of that. Overall you end up hearing several stories.
Re: Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
#10Are there people here who have worked at airport security of some country? I know we don't have much to go on, so I'm not looking for the truth. I'm wondering hypothetically: why / how could his entry be denied?
I don't work at airport security but since he was denied on check-in I suppose it's a case of "computer says no". The person at the check-in counter does not know why and has no way to get the situation remedied.