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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by Bartweiss on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @10:17AM (#13706087)
The fact that they saved his passwords is pretty ugly. They're free to demand them 100% of the time, so it raises questions of whether they're saving them for some other purpose.

And more simply, it means you have to trust border patrol's password management as well as your own. (Or change them all immediately.)

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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by alxndr on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:11PM (#13707638)
Also makes the border control's system a pretty attractive target for hackers.
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Re:US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff pr... by Bartweiss on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:51PM (#13708068)
Exactly. I think a database of identities tied to accounts with passwords would be at least as tempting as the OPM records (though to different people), which is reason enough that it shouldn't exist.
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