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- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.And used "roll" instead of "role" in the post"TSA actually discusses FAMs increasing roll post 9/11..."From this statement, I would guess that the TSA is somehow increasing their spin? ;)You misspelled 'Knew'on your poll ;-) ...
- Tags: Transportation, Airliners, Snake, airport security, Nate, Transportation Security Administration, Nope, Federal Reserve Board
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Update: TSA has commented on the CNN story on their website. From our good friend Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix Security Digest, and memorable quotes from Samuel L. Jackson, apparently we can draw the conclusion that we have snakes on planes, but not Federal...
- Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Dave Lewis, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Checkpoint friendly laptop bags should help with airport screening
- Regular air travelers may be interested in ways to speed up the screening process and having a laptop bag that lets you leave your laptop inside and protected may be a good first step. There are some important guidelines about the "checkpoint friendly" bags that meet the technical requirements set...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Airport security part 4: Attack of the body scanners!
- If you read my blog postings semi-often, you know that I'm very, very critical of problems with airport security. Nicole Wong of the Boston Globe reported that Boston's Logan International Airport will become the next airport to implement full-body scanners (thanks for the link from the LiquidMatrix guys!) that can see...
- Tags: Imaging, Airport Security, Privacy, Transportation Security Administration, Image, Attack, Madness, Scanners, Document Management, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEAR
- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEARTotally mootSorry, but Continental could have $5 international tickets and total no-wait-at-all boarding. Whatever it is that they've done to their seats is enough that quite a few of us (and I've had seatmates with the same reaction) only subject ourselves to the...
- Tags: security, Continental, Transportation Security Administration, airport security
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Clear and Newark Airport TSA Lines
- Clear (flyclear.com) registered traveller program technology in use, compared to the TSA lines at Newark International Airport Terminal C by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, C/C++, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow, clear, security, continental airlines, tsa, airports
- Image galleries 2008-06-12
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thuslyHand Sanitizer Bombinterestingly enough, it's probably completely possible to build a bomb out of a can of hand sanitizer and a lighter. well... maybe not a bomb persee... but enough of a distraction i'm sure.i know i'm not giving away...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, F'ing
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Airport security part 2: TSA is failing us, let my associated ranting begin thusly
- I want to start out by saying that I take great personal risk of getting black listed before my flight to K.C. tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd talk about an article by Rafal Los on how the TSA is failing us again. This actually reminds me of an older article that...
- Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Rafal Los, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- TSA site rife with insecurity and conflict of interest
- TSA site rife with insecurity and conflict of interestAnd you expected what from the govt?With govt, failure is success. Now the TSA can just ask for more money. After all, they are only trying to protect us. The extra hassle I have to endure at the airport...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Transportation Security Administration, government
- Discussion threads 2008-01-13
- TSA site rife with insecurity and conflict of interest
- Hey, security breaches, incompetence and corruption. Sounds like government IT. The Post reports: A government Web site designed to help travelers remove their names from aviation watch lists was so riddled with security holes that hackers could easily have stolen personal information from scores of...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Transportation Security Administration, Government, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Vertical Industries, Security, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
- New airport scanning tech might be a little too revealing
- New airport scanning tech might be a little too revealingWe've got one of thoseAt Schiphol airport. You can still choose whether you want to use conventional means like searching by hand or just walk in to the machine and get scanned. People scanning are in another part of the building...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, same people
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- New airport scanning tech might be a little too revealing
- The Transportation Security Administration has a hot new machine for airport scanning. The new "millimeter-wave passenger imaging technology" produces much more detailed images than metallic scanners, the TSA says, according to a CNN report. But that's just the problem, says the American Civil Liberties Union. ...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Image, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Air marshall info among 100,000 records on lost TSA hard drive
- The Transportation Security Administration has lost a hard drive with personal information from 100,000 current and former employees. TSA isnt sure whether its just lost or if it was stolen but in either case they "deeply regret this incident," Ars Technica reports. And so, as in so many...
- Tags: Security, Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?
- TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?I see a pattern.[url=http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6170995.html]FBI chief blames aging computers for their privacy problems.[/url][url=http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3072]IRS CIO hopes that COBOL systems will help modernize agency.[/url]Modernize by staying obsolete. Right.If you must Ask the Fox to guard the Coop...then could you at least...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, ChoicePoint Inc., job, Transportation Security Administration
- Discussion threads 2007-04-15
- TSA watchlists based on antique technology. Would ChoicePoint do a better job?
- Writing in Technology Review, Mark Williams explains that the problem with the Transportation Security Administrations watchlists - which famously produce reams of false positives - is based on a very old algorithm called Soundex. Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon Universitys School...
- Tags: Government technology, Privacy, Homeland security
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Port worker ID card program starts - without card readers
- The Department of Homeland Security announced a new program, to start in March, that will require 750,000 U.S. port and maritime workers to carry biometric identification cards. There will be no card readers for at least a year, though, The Sacramento Bee reports. The Transportation Security...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, United States Coast Guard, Security, Homeland security, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Secure Flight violated privacy law, report finds
- The Transportation Security Administration violated federal law by gathering passenger information from commercial databases without notifying passengers, a report by the Department of Homeland Securitys privacy office concludes. According to the Washington Post, TSAs Secure Flight program violated the 1974 Privacy Act, which requires that the public be...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, EagleForce, commercial data, Government technology, Homeland security, Privacy
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- FBI shuts down self-help boarding pass site
- A new entry in annals of stupid programmers. Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School of Informatics, posted a program on his website to create fake airline boarding passes, The Washington Post. He says he was exposing a security flaw. The government says he's assisting terrorists. ...
- Tags: pass, Transportation Security Administration, Christopher Soghoian, security
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- Airport security exceptions and subjectivity: What a crock
- Airport security exceptions and subjectivity: What a crockSome airports give baggies outI recently flew out of Seattle and Oakland and not only did that pre-screening guy check your baggie, he had baggies to give you if you didn't have one.Regarding Holiday Inns, you've stumbled upon something there. I remember...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Holiday Inns, crock, Transportation Security Administration, security, government, airport security, homeland security
- Discussion threads 2006-10-20
- Airport security exceptions and subjectivity: What a crock
- This week, for the Computer History Museums fellow awards, I made a quick trip to California that took me from Bostons Logan Airport to San Francisco International Airport and back again in under two days. For me, it was the first time I had liquids or gels in my bags...
- Tags: Transportation Security Administration, gel
- Blog posts 2006-10-20
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