Twitter-joking security expert barred from another United flight, lawyer says
Found on CNet News on Sunday, 19 April 2015
Earlier this week, computer security researcher Chris Roberts was removed from a United flight by the FBI. His transgression was to have tweeted: "Find myself on a 737/800, lets see Box-IFE-ICE-SATCOM, ? Shall we start playing with EICAS messages? "PASS OXYGEN ON" Anyone ? :)"
His new lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation declared on Saturday that their client had just been removed from another flight. Or, rather prevented from boarding it, despite already having his boarding pass and clearing TSA checks.
His lawyers say that he still hasn't had his laptop and other devices returned to him by the FBI after the first incident.
As far as I know, Twitter enforces HTTPS what means that they either disable SSL, present false certificates or externally monitor accounts linked to passengers. None of that sounds acceptable in a land which calls itself free.