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There's a really great post on tips for airplane travel over on sweetmusic-2 that I've been meaning to point to for a long time. Go read it, especially if you haven't traveled by air much.

This post isn't very closely related at all; it just seemed like a convenient excuse for a link. This post is more directly related to this post on ( Read more... )

Techdirt: TSA Staffer Hires Buddies To Build Insecure Website For Folks Falsely On Watch List We've had so many stories of government computer systems or websites that have terrible security or are just useless (but expensive!) that it shouldn't surprise us to hear of another one. Yet, there's always someone who can go a step further. Witness the ( Read more... )

From this post in BoingBoing we get a link to a column by Patrick Smith in today's New York Times titled "The Airport Security Follies". Well worth a read, but it will make you angry. If enough people read it, maybe...

To understand what makes these measures so absurd, we first need to ( Read more... )

Now the TSA is afraid that spare lithium batteries will spontaneously combust. Or that somebody will try to light them instead of their shoe, but if so why are thay banned from checked baggage and not from carry-ons?

Never mind that they're just as likely to combust inside a laptop. Maybe more, since an external short might ( Read more... )

MIT student arrested for entering Boston airport with "fake bomb" light-up T-shirt - Boing BoingShort version: it wasn't a "fake bomb" at all, it was a wearable tech jacket on the body of a friendly young technologist who would have been *way* better off wearing something else to the airport today. Authorities in Massachussetts who've been accused ( Read more... )