5 month ago
wearehugh : Wide Awake Developers: Steve Jobs Made Me Miss My Flight - i once had to explain my 1st generation ipod to the tsa. didn't miss my flight though.
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deusx : FBI issues prosthetic pregnant belly bomb alert | The Register - I predict airports will soon demand childbirth at security checkpoint to prove it's a real belly.
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7 month ago
gleuschk : The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog - we’ve gotten exactly the system we deserve
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9 month ago
nelson : 75% of bombs can board the plane - Meanwhile, we're not allowed a bottle of water
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nelson : "Security theater" - TSA head calls some of their own procedures a sham
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13 month ago
Rod Begbie : Fake bomb eludes airport test -- Times Union - Albany NY - Hooray for the TSA and their water-divining machinery. [via] #
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15 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: TSA donates potentially explosive liquids to homeless - "Could it be that the FAA ban on liquids is really a plot to rid the country of homeless people, through the use of explosive liquids?"
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17 month ago
Rod Begbie : Schneier on Security: CYA Security - I U+2665 Bruce Schneier. "Much of our country's counterterrorism security spending is not designed to protect us from the terrorists, but instead to protect our public officials from criticism when another attack occurs." [via] #
Matthew M. Boedicker : Schneier essay on how CYA behavior leads to ineffective security
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20 month ago
Rod Begbie : Ask the pilot | Salon Technology - Patrick Smith's mother causes confusion at the airline security counter: Is it OK to take marinara sauce (which is a liquid) onto a plane if it's frozen (which makes it a solid)? Ah, I feel safer already. [via] #
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : Unlikely Terrorists On No-Fly List, Steve Kroft Reports List Includes President Of Bolivia, Dead 9/11 Hijackers - CBS News - CBS News has got their hands on the TSA's "No-Fly List". Sucks to be a Gary Smith or a Robert Johnson. [via] #
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22 month ago
Rod Begbie : New Air-Travel Guidelines | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - "The ban was a necessary precaution. We have to be willing to make these kinds of sacrifices if we're going to prevent scientifically impossible terrorist attacks." [via] #
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merlinmann : TIME.com: The Flier's Conundrum: What Can I Carry? -- Page 1 - "No. Despite media reports to the contrary, no one has to taste breast milk."
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24 month ago
jkottke : Faces are now being searched at US airports for suspicious microexpressions - Faces are now being searched at US airports for suspicious microexpressions. Psychologist Paul Ekman helped set up the program and was previously one of Malcolm Gladwell's subjects in The Naked Face and Blink.
Rod Begbie : Faces, Too, Are Searched at U.S. Airports - New York Times - Good move by the TSA: Investing in training screeners with the ability to pick out suspicious characters at the airport; skills that can be used regardless of whether a "bad guy" is planning on using liquids, boxcutters, or dental floss as part of their [via] #
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merlinmann : TSA wins the war on lipstick - "According to the Transport Security Agency, the laws of physics have changed since last Thursday, rendering lipstick safely non-explosive again."
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38 month ago
deusx : komo news | 'This Is Not Right' - "They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... you don't have any'." All for a blunt bread knife. Yeah, I feel safer.
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43 month ago
Andy Baio : Cory refuses to give up personal info to American Airlines - his letter to AA is a great read
Nelson Minar : Cory doesn't go along - I wish more people were able to challenge the inanity of air travel today
deusx : Boing Boing: Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends? - Another data point for my hesitation to ever take a plane to anywhere this decade, even domestically.
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