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Senate staffers issued ID cards whose "security chips" turn out to be just...
Senator Ron Wyden [D-Equestria] sent a letter to the chairs of the Senate Committee on Rules & Administration asking why Senate staffers have been issued ID cards whose "security chips" are just...
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Trump plans ban on laptops in the cabins of flights from Europe
Unnamed "officials briefed on the matter" told Reuters that the Trump administration is planning to ban travelers from bringing their laptops -- and possibly tablets -- in their hand-luggage on...
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That time the TSA started screening all paper products separately
Akal Security Inc is the TSA contractor that screens passengers at Kansas City International Airport under a $108m/5 year contract; earlier this month they began abruptly scanning all paper products...
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Airline lobby group claims a laptop ban would cost $1B
The Trumpian trial-balloon on banning laptops in the cabins of planes coming from Europe has put the shits way up the airline industry (rightly), who have published their own (data-free) costings for...
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TSA to require some electronics out of bags at 10 U.S. airports starting...
The TSA will be testing out expanded screening for carry-on electronics larger than a phone and certain food items at selected airports around the country. The new rules come just two days after a...
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Opsec for a world where the laptop ban goes global
If the Trump administration makes good on its promise to pack all potentially explosive laptops together in a blast-multiplying steel case in the plane's hold, it will be good news for would-be...
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United insisted a passenger check her 17th C violin, then a supervisor got...
Yennifer Correia was at Houston airport waiting for her United flight to a gig with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra when a United gate agent told her she'd have to check her precious, 17th century...
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TSA says it doesn't know why United thought comics were banned from checked...
People flying home from San Diego Comic-Con yesterday got a rude surprise when they spotted signs at the United check-in warning them not to put comics in their checked bags -- and most assumed it was...
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EU's highest court strikes down passenger data-sharing arrangement with Canada
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the 2014 EU-Canada passenger name record (PNR) agreement was "incompatible with the fundamental rights recognised by the EU," because the records ("names,...
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Behold! The astonishing mental gymnastics of TSA apologists explaining why...
The project of making planes secure from terrorist attacks is an inescapable nonsense: nonsense because there's no way to screen millions of people to prevent a few dedicated ones from bringing down a...
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Just before the FCC's cowardly vote to kill Net Neutrality, they had to...
"On advice of security, we need to take a brief recess," said Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, just as the he was about to call a vote to kill Net Neutrality after ignoring tens of millions of comments...
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TSA + CBP test new facial recognition tech & computed tomography scanners at LAX
A new facial recognition technology screening system will soon be used on some travelers who pass through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The experiment will take place for 30 days at the LAX...
View ArticleAirport "security" trays are filthy reservoirs of infectious agents
In Deposition of respiratory virus pathogens on frequently touched surfaces at airports, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, a University of Nottingham team reveal that the airport security trays...
View ArticleWanting It Badly Is Not Enough: Real Problems For Creators Deserve Real...
As the European Parliament prepares for tomorrow's vote on the new Copyright Directive with its provisions requiring mass-scale filtering of all public communications to check for copyright...
View Article"Like Lord of the Flies": working at the TSA really sucks
A new report summarizing three years of investigationsfrom the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the TSA calls out the agency for its "toxic leadership culture, misconduct,...
View ArticleA grandmother is suing the TSA for strip searching her to get a look at her...
Back in 2012, Jon Corbett made headlines by showing that he could easily get metal through TSA checkpoints' full-body pornoscanners: his experiences fighting the TSA convinced him to get his law...
View ArticleIndependent evaluation of "aggression detection" microphones used in schools...
One of the griftiest corners of late-stage capitalism is the "public safety" industry, in which military contractors realize they can expand their market by peddling overpriced garbage to schools,...
View Article"Just don't have a face": what it's like to opt-out of US airports'"optional"...
Privacy advocate Allie Funk was surprised to learn that her Delta flight out of Detroit airport would use facial recognition scans for boarding; Funk knew that these systems were supposed to be "opt...
View ArticleThe TSA strip searched a grandmother on Mother's Day and now says that she's...
Last Mother's Day, grandmother Rhonda Mengert was subjected to a pat-down search at Tulsa airport, wherein a TSA agent felt a panty-liner in her underwear; she was then forced to strip down and show...
View ArticleWoman whose vulva was probed by Burbank TSA "officers" who ignored her...
Last September, Jessica Lundquist passed through a body-scanner at Burbank airport and was told by a TSA screener that they wanted to conduct a "groin search" on her. Lundquist refused to allow the...
View ArticleUS Customs destroys the instrument of renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko
This is so heartbreaking. Ballaké Sissoko, the highly-acclaimed African musician from Mali, claims that US Customs officials destroyed his custom-made, irreplaceable kora instrument. He arrived back in...
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Teachers are suing police departments for traumatizing active shooter drills
From The Indianapolis Star: Eight elementary school teachers who were shot with airsoft guns "execution style" during an active shooter training drill last year are suing the sheriff's department that...
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"Brutally honest" airport security announcement
YouTuber ReThinkingTourism follows up the honest pre-flight safety demonstration video with the brutally honest airport security announcement. Really more painfully obvious than brutally honest....
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ACLU sues FBI after it put man on the No Fly List for refusing to become an...
The FBI demanded that Ahmad Chebli, a U.S. citizen, become an informant on the Lebanese community. The agents threatened to punish him and his family with specious investigations, false arrest and...
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Bullets in deodorant, a meth burrito, and the TSA's other "Top 10 Catches of...
The US Transportation Security Administration released its "Top 10 Catches of 2021," items that travelers attempted to bring through airport security checkpoints in luggage or on their person. Some...
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Pick a good password, then never change it
Glenn Fleishman has some advice that may seem counterintuitive: never change your password. If your password is long and random enough to avoid brute force or dictionary attacks, unique to the service,...
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Amazon is making a Ring Camera TV show
From Deadline: Wanda Sykes is knocking on the door of syndication with a new series that features videos taken from Ring doorbells.The comedian is to host Ring Nation, a new twist on the popular clip...
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A comic book history of the Pinkerton Agency
Over at The Nib, Sam Wallman has created an illustrated history of the Pinkerton Agency — the original "private eyes," a nearly 200-year-old American corporation that essentially pioneered the...
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America's secretive, 1,566,062-record No Fly List leaked and published
A copy of the famed No Fly List, vastly expanded after the 9/11 attacks and now populated by more than a million people who are 5 years old, have common Arabic names, or simply upset some random cop or...
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"They missed a whole bomb in my bag," says woman as she's patted down by TSA
"Whole time they missed a whole bomb in my bag," said Dorion Young Davis, 26, as TSA agents patted her down at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Tuesday. Apparently, Davis was...
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