Campaign to opt out of pornoscanners & video TSA checkpoints at Thanksgiving
Dave sez, "The National Opt Out and Film Week, a new campaign designed to expose the abusive policies of the TSA, is set to launch during Thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel times of the year --...
View ArticlePornoscanner vendor accused of fraud, jailarity may ensue
Rapiscan, makers of the naked-scanner technology used in many US airports, are in a lot of trouble. The TSA has accused them of falsifying their tests results on the software that supposedly protects...
View ArticleArtist arrested at Oakland airport for wearing ornate watch
Geoffrey McGann, a southern California artist, was arrested at Oakland airport for wearing an assemblage sculpture/watch he'd made. The TSA were also worried because he had a lot of insoles in his...
View ArticleFive reasons to opt out of TSA pornoscanners this weekend
Marilyn sez, "Chris Elliott gives 5 good reasons to participate in the Opt Out protest against the TSA's full-body scanners over this Thanksgiving weekend and so far, 65 percent of the people reading...
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For those about to opt-out: a TSA scanning machine cheat-sheet
As Cory notes in this pre-Thanksgiving travel day post, some travelers in America will be opting out of scanning machines in TSA lines for privacy concerns, or for health and safety reasons. I wanted...
View ArticleThe TSA is an irredeemable shitshow, part ten bazillion
This time it's TSA at DFW, who detained a weeping 12-year-old girl with a genetic bone disorder in a wheelchair, separated from her family, on public display, for an hour. Her hands had tested...
View ArticleTSA to launch independent study of X-Ray Body Scanners for health risks
Michael Grabell of ProPublica: "Following months of congressional pressure, the Transportation Security Administration has agreed to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study the health...
View ArticleAnonymous TSA "insider" blog
Taking Sense Away is the aptly named blog allegedly maintained by an anonymous former TSA screener. It delves into the kinds of shenanigans that go on in the image operator room where they get to see...
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TSA will allow small knives, golf clubs onto airplanes
In a rare, welcome moment of sanity, the TSA has announced that it will allow small knives, golf clubs, hockey sticks, wiffle bats, and similar items on planes. Given that you are allowed to bring on...
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TSA screener finds pepper spray on the floor, gasses five other screeners...
A TSA screener at JFK pepper-sprayed five of his colleagues at Terminal 2 on Tuesday, according to the New York Post. The screener, Chris Yves Dabel, found a pepper-spray cannister on the floor and...
View ArticleTSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people...
Sai has "a neurological disorder that causes episodic muteness and muscle spasms" -- basically, he sometimes becomes mute and gets bad shakes. His doctor has advised him to have juice continuously...
View ArticleObama's regressive record makes Nixon look like Che
Redditor Federal Reservations has made a handy post enumerating all the regressive, authoritarian, corporatist policies enacted by the Obama administration in its one-and-a-bit terms. You know, for...
View ArticleTSA finally seeks public comment on pornoscanners
From Slashdot submitter Trims: "The TSA is now in the public comment stage of its project to roll out Advanced Imaging Technology (i.e. full-body X-ray) scanners. The TSA wants your feedback as to...
View ArticleMusical comment on TSA pornoscanners
Jonathan Mann sez, "I saw Cory's post about the TSA accepting comments on the full body scanners and decided I'd give them a piece of my mind - in song." My Comment To The TSA (Song A Day #1573)...
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TSA hearing for "Naked American Hero" John Brennan
Remember our happy mutant comrade John Brennan, who removed his clothes at the Portland Airport during a TSA screening? He was acquitted of a ridiculous indecent exposure charge, and now he is...
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TSA random secondary screening is trivial to dodge
An anonymous reader of Dave Farber's Interesting People list has discovered a glaring flaw in the TSA's protocol for secondary screening: today at newark airport i used a paperless electronic boarding...
View ArticleTSA chickens out, won't allow items that don't threaten airplanes back on-board
The TSA has backed down from its moment of sanity in which it decided to allow golf-clubs, small knives and other items that pose no threat to airplanes back in the sky. The TSA's move had been a...
View ArticleTSA Denver tries to confiscate Chewbacca actor's light-saber cane
Magic words to TSA are not "please" or "thank you".. It's "Twitter".. cane released to go home.. twitter.com/TheWookieeRoar…— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) June 3, 2013 Peter Mayhew, the...
View ArticleAmerica hates pornoscanners
Two and a half years after the TSA rolled out the nation's pornoscanners, they finally got around to fulfilling their legal obligation to ask Americans how they felt about them. 97% don't want them....
View ArticleNo-Fly list doesn't fly with judge
Things seem to be going well at the ACLU's day in court over the no-fly list. The judge is pretty skeptical at the idea that using secret criteria to secretly limit the ability of Americans to fly (or...
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