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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/26/2013 10:05 PM, Nadav Har'El
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Apr 25, 2013, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "OT: mailbox generator":
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<pre wrap="">Off topic, but may be interesting:
I heard recently that it is now legal for the security checks in the Ben
Gurion airport to require that I show my mail account.
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I don't understand how they could possibly enforce this. Can't the
person tell them he *doesn't* have an email address? Is having an email
address a legal requirement nowadays?</pre>
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I think you are treating this the wrong way. You are thinking of it
as if it was a security screening. This is, in actuality, an
intelligence gathering operation. I will be the first to admit I'm
just guessing here, but I believe the people being asked to provide
their email are not randomly selected people, but rather people whom
the interrogator already knows, and knows not only that they do, in
fact, have an email address, but also what it is and where it is
hosted.<br>
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Shachar
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Shachar Shemesh
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