Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smartphone Case

Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by kchoudhu on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:04PM (#12368063)

Journalist enters country, has bags searched. Customs officer: "This smartphone case is not allowed in the country."

Oh well, we tried.

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Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by walrus01 on Friday August 26, 2016 @02:34PM (#12368275)

Iridium handheld phones are already recognized by certain countries' customs for a similar purpose, they don't want journalists to have phone call and SMS access outside of the country using a system/network entirely outside of their domestic telecoms' control. For example when reporting on internal crackdowns on dissent, political opposition, etc.

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Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by mentat on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:57PM (#12368886)

Wonder how long it will take SDRs to be recognized as similar tools.

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Re:Bunnie Huang and Edward Snowden’s Malware-Detecting Smart... by toyg on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:05PM (#12370363)

Nothing a bit of camouflage cannot fix. If these cases start looking like regular ones, what are they going to do, ban all phone cases from entering the country...?

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