Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017

Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by gcp on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:10AM (#15489192)

I wonder if the media attention due to him getting banned from traveling to the USA contributed to him being known to a wider audience, and thus on the radar of whoever picks the award winner.

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by wodenokoto on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:15AM (#15489210)

That story went by me. Was there a rationale for banning him?

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by tolien on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:23AM (#15489229)

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/06/28/denied-entry/

I can't see any follow-up on why he was denied entry though.

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by bagder on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:48AM (#15489293)

We were never able to get any answers as to why I was denied - in spite of some real efforts in finding out. It will remain an unanswered mystery.

I will make a renewed attempt to travel to the US at a later time. Hopefully it was just some mess-up, a human error or whatever.

/ Daniel

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by wolf550e on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @06:46AM (#15489933)

So basically, US DHS is as intelligent and technically competent as the woman who thought you hacked her instagram?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/01/19/subject-urgent-warnin...

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by emmelaich on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:57AM (#15489317)

My guess is that it's similar to the reason curl (and wget) sometimes get identified as malware by virus checkers.

Someone in US Immigration Googled 'curl' with your name and found a bunch of malware hits.

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by netzone on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:30AM (#15489441)

Certainly curl is used by lots of malware, and many a hacker probably use curl in their software.

I guess it's possible he was flagged by someone reviewing malware. Would malware creators give any credits?

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Re:Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017 by limaoscarjuliet on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:27AM (#15490340)

I got naturalized in US a few years back. Yes, big mess, great potential for random mishaps and general ignorance.

Fingers crossed on your future trip.

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