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TSA orders baby off plane
An 18 month-old toddler was ordered off a plane Tuesday at Ft. Lauderdale airport, after TSA representatives told airline employees they wanted to "speak" to her. Riyanna's father was flabbergasted....
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Newark Airport security supervisor assumed murdered man's identity for 2 decades
Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, a security supervisor at Newark airport, lived a double life for 20 years using the identity of the victim in an unsolved murder. Since 1992, the undocumented Nigerian...
View ArticleTSA frisks actual (but likely harmless) mass murdering serial bomber
Henry Kissinger's wheelchair considered harmful: "Kissinger was taken to the search area, was required to stand, and was given the 'full Monty.'"
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Toddler kicked off plane after iPad deprivation tantrum
A family from Washington state had to cancel an island vacation when their flight was grounded after their 3-year-old son pitched a tantrum. The toddler had been quietly playing with an iPad while...
View ArticleTSA dumps Grandpa's cremains all over airport, laughs at distraught relative...
John Gross of Indianapolis claims that a TSA operative at the Orlando airport opened up the tightly sealed jar, labelled HUMAN REMAINS, which bore his grandfather's ashes, and then proceeded to...
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TSA agent pokes fingers in ashes of traveler's dead grandfather, spills them...
Indianapolis resident John Gross was going through TSA security in the Orlando, Florida airport, carrying the cremated ashes of his Sicilian grandfather "in a tightly sealed jar marked 'Human Remains."...
View ArticleDeaf man writes that TSA agent mocked him as “F*cking deafie,” then stole his...
Update (June 12): The young author of the post alleging mistreatment by the TSA contacted Boing Boing to request that we delete/unpublish this blog post, explaining that he hadn't intended the story to...
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Giant infographic reveals TSA to be the worst thing ever made by humankind
Two clippings from an attractive infographic that presents a great deal of damning information about the TSA.
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Portland's "Naked American Hero" not guilty!
Here's the live blog recap of Boing Boing reader John Brennan's trial for taking his clothes off in protest at a TSA screening checkpoint at the Portland Airport. John was found not guilty -- hurray!...
View ArticlePetition to make the TSA obey a court order and hold hearings on pornoscanners
Bruce Schneier writes, Year ago, EPIC [the Electronic Privacy Information Center] sued the TSA over full body scanners (I was one of the plantiffs), demanding that they follow their own rules and ask...
View ArticleWhite House TSA petition goes dark as it nears the finish line, disappears...
A White House petition about the TSA's screening procedures was 90 percent of the way to completion when Wired ran a story giving it a final push. The White House's petition site went down for...
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Delta refuses boarding to Poop Strong man for flying while brown and wearing...
Back in 2007, I designed a shirt for Woot! that featured a screaming eagle clutching an unlaced shoe and a crushed water bottle, surrounded by the motto MOISTURE BOMBS ZOMG TERRORISTS ZOMG GONNA KILL...
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Shirt that got Poop Strong man tossed off a Delta flight available once again!
After Arijit got thrown off of a Delta flight for wearing a TSA-mocking t-shirt I designed, a lot of people began to email, asking where they could buy one for themselves. Well, it seemed a bit weird...
View ArticleAn accountable algorithm for running a secure random checkpoint
Ed Felten presents and argues for the idea of "accountable algorithms" for use in public life -- that is, "output produced by a particular execution of the algorithm can be verified as correct after...
View ArticleiPad left at airport checkpoint ends up at TSA inspector's house
ABC News ran a sting against dirty TSA inspectors by leaving behind iPads (with tracking spyware) at ten airport checkpoints known for theft and following them electronically. One iPad, left at an...
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Ex-TSA agent: stealing is commonplace in the TSA
Marilyn sez, "My reporter friend Nicole Glass interviewed ex-con and ex-TSA agent Pythias Brown who said stealing is commonplace in the agency." The article, in RT, describes a culture of total,...
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Woman with late-stage terminal cancer humiliated by TSA bandage-lifting
What has the TSA done to protect America from rogue cancer terrorists this week? This: A woman with leukemia who was making an end-of-life journey to Hawaii was humiliated en route by a revealing TSA...
View ArticleStranded in Hawai'i on the no-fly list
Wade Hicks Jr. got a standby flight on an Air Force jet from Gulfport, Miss to visit his wife, a U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in Japan. But when the jet set down in Hawai'i, he was not allowed to...
View ArticleAviation vulnerability: Scan boarding passes to discover if you're in for...
Want to know if you're in for a date with Doctor Jellyfinger the next time you go to the airport? Just print out your boarding-card and scan in the barcode: it encodes whether you're getting the "full...
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TSA inspectors get a larger annual clothing allowance than Marine lieutenants...
TSA "officers" have a new deal: awesome new clothes to wear while they touch your genitals. Under their new collective bargaining agreement, Transportation Security Administration officers get to...
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