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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Continental's TSA Airport Security is decidedly Un-CLEAR
- As some of you may know, my job as a systems architect for one of the world's largest systems integration firms requires that I do a large amount of travel. Typically, I'm away from home about four days out of the week. Naturally, this results in going through a lot...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- DHS security flap swirls around Unisys
- Unisys is under fire over data breaches at the Department of Homeland Security. Unisys maintains that it did nothing wrong. On Monday, the Washington Post reported that the FBI is investigating Unisys after it allegedly failed to detect data breaches linked to a Chinese-language Web site. To make...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Schneier: Will data reuse foster creation of a police state?
- The current era of "extreme data collection" puts crytography expert Bruce Schneier in mind of how the government abused US Census data collection during World War II. Writing in Wired, Schneier recalls that Census rules specifically banned the re-use of Census data, precisely so people would provide data without fear...
- Blog posts 2007-06-29
- iPhones arrive stateside under armed guard
- Kasper Jade of AppleInsider notes that sources say early arrivals of the Apple iPhone got stateside yesterday via a Hong Kong-based air courier service.The shipping date was meant to allow enough time for the devices to clear customed.Believed to be at multiple locations, each arriving shipment was escorted by armed...
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Deadlines near for new ID cards for feds
- Two federal agencies have announced they will make some big decisions on smart ID cards early this year, The Washington Post reports. The Transportation Security Administration said it will pick a contractor to supply new identification cards for transportation workers soon. The winner would be responsible for screening the backgrounds...
- Blog posts 2007-01-02
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-12-22
- FCC sets airport WiFi precedent. Battle lines drawn?
- In a decision that will most certainly prove to set a precedent for all American airports and that draws a very clear line in the sand, the FCC has rejected the assertions of Logan International Airport Boston officials who have maintained that they have the right to prevent Continental Airlines...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- FCC sets airport WiFi precedent. Battle lines drawn?
- In a decision that will most certainly prove to set a precedent for all American airports and that draws a very clear line in the sand, the FCC has rejected the assertions of Logan International Airport Boston officials who have maintained that they have the right to prevent Continental Airlines...
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- TSA pulls out of puffers, wants to fund improved X-ray technology
- Millions of dollars allocated for so-called puffer technology, which was supposed to be able to detect explosives in bags by blowing puffs of air, will be reallocated to something that actually works, the Transportation Safety Agency signaled, according to the Washington Post. The proposal calls for a shift...
- Blog posts 2006-09-22
- Boeing picked for SBINet
- Homeland Security has made its choice for the Secure Border Initiative, after months of frenzied lobbying by defense contractors. The winner is Boeing, Federal Computer Week reports. The SBINet contract is worth $2.5 billion. Boeing’s winning proposal calls for the installation of 1,800 towers along the northern and...
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- TSA to set up centralized network for Registered Traveler
- TSA - the Transportation Security Administration - will build a centralized information network to "aggregate, store and distribute data to all entities participating in Registered Traveler," reports Washington Technology. Registered Traveler is TSA's program to allow frequent travelers faster processing if they submit to biometrics and advanced screenings. ...
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- TSA mismanaged Unisys contract, IG report says
- The Transportation Security Administration badly bungled project management of a $1 billion contract for the Information Technology Managed Services program, the Dept. of Homeland Security's inspector general reported recently, says Federal Computer Week. "The original funding is almost exhausted but many airports still do not have basic information technology...
- Blog posts 2006-04-03
- Federal government pulling back from the Web
- Government information is disappearing from the public Web. That, says Aliya Sternstein in this week's Federal Computer Week, is one thing government officials and public critics can agree on. As to whether this is a good, necessary thing or a bad, unnecessary thing, there is no end of...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Privatized airport security on the way
- Under the Transportation Security Administration's Frequent Traveler program, people willing to have their fingerprints and background checks etched onto a smartcard would get their own check-in lines at the airport. That's the good news. Wired News reports that under TSA's outline released Friday the lines and the cards would be...
- Blog posts 2006-01-24
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