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Federal gov't doesn't trust TSA enough to inform it of airline employees with...
According to a recently-released Government Accountability Office report, the "TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all...
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TSA supervisor calls police on teen for videoing his father's pat-down
A 16-year-old boy was prohibited from video-recording his own pat-down at New Orleans airport -- something explicitly allowed by the TSA -- and when he recorded his father's pat-down, the TSA...
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TSA Behavioral Detection Program's awful newsletter mocks travellers' worries
The bi-monthly BDO Newsletter serves America's Phightin' Phrenologists as they decide whose lives to screw with based on a $1 billion junk-science boondoggle. On their own, the newsletters could be...
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New pornoscanners are also useless, cost $160 million
The new generation of millimeter-wave body scanners from the convicted war-criminals at L-3 were supposed to replace the useless, expensive backscatter radiation machines from Rapiscan with a more...
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Make your own TSA universal luggage keys
The image above, published in 2014 in this Herald.net story and credited to The Washington Post, showed the keying patterns for all of the TSA-complaint "Travel Sentry" luggage locks. I've redacted...
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3D print your own TSA Travel Sentry keys and open anyone's luggage
Watch this video on The Scene. The TSA mandates that all checked luggage must be locked with a deliberately flawed lock that can be opened with one of a handful of skeleton keys that are supposed to...
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TSA says it will sue woman who tried to bring apple butter on plane
In 2003, the TSA fined Mary Hostein of Michigan for trying to take a a jar of apple butter through airport security. When an agent told Hostein that the spread was a liquid, and therefore subject to...
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San Francisco Airport security screeners charged with complicity in...
Three screeners working for Covenant Aviation Security -- the TSA contractor that provides government-funded genital massages at SFO -- have been arrested for alleged participation in a scheme to...
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Airport full-body scanners no longer optional, if the TSA screener doesn't...
At their sole discretion, and without any public guidelines, TSA agents can now opt you back into the full-body scanner, even if you opt out. (more…)
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TSA transparency activist seeks injunction against mandatory full-body scanners
Ever since the TSA broke the law and abused him, Sai has been suing them over their illegal conduct, forcing them into court and then demonstrating to the court that the agency refuses to play by any...
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An ode to TSA screeners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDe_gk_f6oY David writes, "TSA is out of control. We made a video compilation of some of TSA's greatest hits."
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TSA screener insists that full-body screening is mandatory
Sai, who is seeking an injunction against the TSA's new mandatory full-body screening test (but only for people they don't like), flew out of SEA-TAC on Dec 31 and was told that the full-body scanner...
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Flying while trans: still unbelievably horrible
Cary Gabriel Costello is a trans-man in Milwaukee. Two-thirds of the time when he flies, the TSA has a complete freakout over the "anomalies" his body displays on the full-body scanner. (more…)
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How to make a "TSA compliant" multitool mod
Carrying small pliers and screwdrivers can be helpful and comforting. When traveling without checked baggage, I feel strange leaving behind my small multitools. Being without tools is weird. (more…)
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Man recreates TSA's $47,400 "head this way" app in 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEpqmPL3bg TSA guards at airports had a new weapon in their arsenal in 2014: tablets that they held up to randomly direct travelers into different lines. According to...
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TSA's full-body scanners in airports lead to more overall deaths, lawsuit claims
People who fear the TSA's airport body scanners might start driving more instead of flying, and that will raise the number of traffic deaths. That's the argument behind a new legal challenge filed...
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TSA lines grow to 3 hours, snake outside the terminals, with no end in sight
The TSA gambled on millions of wealthy Americans opting out of its pornoscanner-and-shoe-removal process and signing up for its Precheck policy, which allows travellers to pay for the "privilege" of...
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Footage of security lines snaking out the airport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUVR04CMBU&feature=youtu.be Incredible footage of the TSA line at Chicago Midway airport yesterday, which snakes out the airport atrium and into the surrounding...
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Phoenix airport threatens to kick out TSA, hire private (unaccountable)...
The administrators of the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport are apparently considering getting rid of the TSA and replacing them with private contractors, similar to the setup at San Francisco International...
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TSA head of security 'removed from his position'
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration asked its head of security to turn in his badge and bright blue gloves. Kelly Hoggan has been 'removed from his post.' (more…)
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