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TSA's Instagram
The TSA's Instagram continues to be a real hoot. Below, see a grenade-shaped vape, comb daggers, and Batarangs! Previously: "TSA's new Instagram shows all the dangerous items that presented no danger"
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Yet another TSA screener doesn't know that DC is part of America
An Orlando TSA screener told a DC-based reporter that he'd need a passport to fly, because DC isn't a state, so a DC driver's license wasn't valid ID. This isn't the first time we've written about...
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Fake TSA screener infiltrates SFO checkpoint, gropes women
He was allegedly drunk, and had at least two victims before SFO's crackerjack private aviation security outfit, Covenant, noticed (they're the same ones who smashed my brand new camera some years ago...
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TSA employee to security theater skeptics: "You don't have shit for rights"
A person who "works for the TSA" accidentally posted a public comment to Facebook excoriating Rebecca Hains for expressing skepticism about the TSA's efficacy. The person saw Hains's comments a...
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FBI and AG sued by American muslims over no-fly list
Four of the plaintiffs are US citizens, the other a permanent resident, and they say that their rights have been routinely violated by a secret, unaccountable terrorist watchlist system that impairs...
View ArticleWhere do bags go after the TSA takes them?
Air travel comes with a risk that, although mathematically rare, seems all too common: lost luggage. According to Conde Nast Traveler, U.S. carriers handle 400 million checked bags a year, and as many...
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Security researchers buy pornoscanner, demonstrate how to sneak in guns & bombs
(Rapiscan images showing a subject carrying no weapon (left) versus a .380 ACP pistol sewn to the side of his pants leg, (right) which is practically invisible in the scan) Researchers from UCSD, the...
View ArticleTSA: "please verify that your used cane is not a sword before flying"
Kevin Underhill nails it: "Anyone who does not know their cane conceals a sword or dagger (almost certainly an elderly or disabled person with a second-hand cane) poses no threat, while anyone who...
View ArticleTSA demands to search man who's already flown
Minnesota's Kahler Nygard drew a Spirit Air boarding car with the dreaded "SSSS" extra-search marker, and halfway to Denver, Spirit and/or the TSA decided he hadn't been searched properly (he says he...
View ArticleJetsetting Terrorist: Blog from a guy who is branded "SSSS" by the TSA
Jetsetting Terrorist is a fascinating blog written by a guy who was once convicted of an activist property crime and as a result must undergo enhanced screening every time he flies. I’m not an actual...
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WATCH: FBI has chat with YouTuber for filming in Speedo on plane
YouTube star Jerome Jarre decided to have some fun on a flight to Miami, so he slipped into a silly swimming outfit in the lavatory and filmed the hijinks. After being threatened with jail, he had a...
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Buy your own TSA-surplus pornoscanner for $8K
Remember when the TSA spent $113K on Rapiscan pornoscanners that turned out not to work? Now they're selling them off for $8,000. It turns out that these things are pretty interesting from a research...
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Former TSA officer reveals widespread misery there
Image: Shutterstock Being a TSA officer is a dream job for sadistic sociopaths, but for people who are able to sympathize, it's a nightmare. "I hated it from the beginning," writes former TSA officer...
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Philly TSA supervisor Charles Kieser sent a traveller to jail for asking to...
After sending Roger Vanderklok for jail for the audacity of asking to file a complaint, Philadelphia International Airport TSA supervisor Charles Kieser then lied about what happened on the stand in...
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ACLU sues TSA to make it explain junk science "behavioral detection" program
The TSA refuses to explain how it spent $1B on a discredited "behavioral detection" program that led airport authoritarians to believe that when they racially profiled fliers, it was because they'd...
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Here's the TSA's stupid, secret list of behavioral terrorism tells
The ACLU is suing the TSA to get the details of its billion-dollar junk-science "behavioral detection" program, but in the meantime, here's the leaked 92-point checklist the TSA's psychic warriors use...
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Airport workers, including TSA, raid unlockable luggage for valuables
Airport stings keep catching insiders pilfering millions of dollars worth of passenger property from bags that can no longer be effectively locked, thanks to a TSA rule that insists on luggage being...
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TSA trained Disney World's plainclothes in its voodoo "terrorism detection"...
SPOT, the TSA's billion dollar "behavioral detection" mind-reading program, is now apparently in use at Walt Disney World, Seaworld and other Florida attractions. Orlando TSA officers trained 400...
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Encryption backdoors are like TSA luggage-locks for the Internet
In my new Guardian column, I look at UK Prime Minister David Cameron's election pledge to eliminate strong crypto and point out that we already have a forerunner of this in the "TSA-safe" luggage...
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TSA airport checkpoints STILL miss 95% of weapons in smuggling tests
As has been the case since the agency's inception, its agents missed the overwhelming majority of "red team" attempts to smuggle weapons past its checkpoints: 67 out of 70 this time. In part, this is...
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