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TIL Jacob Appelbaum, a man who has been repeatedly targeted by US law enforcement agencies for his work with Wikileaks, was once detained by US Customs; they searched him for phones or laptops but found only flash drives with The Bill of Rights encoded in them. They were unable to copy them.

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