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Welcome back!Are you worried about your luggage getting lost? Carrying expensive camera or computer gear and want to make sure it arrives at your destination?
Try this (by Bruce Schneier):
“I have a starter pistol for all my cases. All I have to do upon check-in is tell the airline ticket agent that I have a weapon [...]
Brilliant: Bruce Schneier writes about a contest for a new TSA logo:
“Let’s do it. I’m announcing the TSA Logo Contest. Rules are simple: create a TSA logo. People are welcome to give ideas in the comments, but only actual created logos are eligible to compete. (When my website administrator wakes up, I’ll ask him how [...]
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As the UK House Of Lords has found out:
“The fact that there has not been a serious incident involving liquid explosives indicates, I would have thought, that the measures that we have put in place so far have been very effective.”
Ah, that’s how. On which basis the measures against asteroid strike, alien invasion and unexplained [...]
Great stuff. Some quotes:
Are you defending us against terrorists that are too stupid to google “fly without id”
Even if the cryptography sucks – it’s not worth bothering – something else sucks more.
Also available as a download for your iPod or PSP
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(But then again – who does). I also learned through his post that there’s now a Wikipedia entry on security theater.
But to get to the point:
“I ran into this idiotic bullshit when I flew up to San Francisco last week, when my deadly, deadly toothpaste was taken away from me, because it was “way [...]
Cartoon
(Via Bruce Schneier)
People really do need to stand up and fight this nonsense. It’s ridiculous, it doesn’t make us any safer, and the delays are bad for the economy.
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Looks like Matthew nearly took part in an action movie ;)
Seriously – “he avoided my eye-contact” creates a level one threat? This is going too far. This is probably the next step. All this just to uphold a state of fear?
Completely ridiculous. I think every airline passenger experiencing something like this should write a complaint [...]
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- Tags: flight plan, state of fear, TSA
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