At issue was a guy who, upon returning from South Korea, had his laptop searched and the inspectors found alleged child porn. The way the picture was described sounded more like an artistic shot to me, but there are other peculiar circumstances about the guy's behavior during his interview with Customs. So they seized his laptop. And it wasn't ( Read more... )

The new ones that see under your clothes? Some scientists are now saying that they think the equivalent amount of radiation may not be calculated correctly and they are not certain how much radiation the machine is pumping out ( Read more... )

Guy steps in to a scanner and another worker starts making fun of the size of his genitals. Guy assaults the other worker in the parking lot with a police baton ( Read more... )

I post this as a curiosity. It's really just a timing weirdness: had he been added to the list a few hours earlier, he might have been prevented from boarding. As it was, he was peacefully taken off the flight by law enforcement agents and nothing happened.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id

One had his M-4 rifle and shotgun unsecured in a closet when his house was burgled, another left hit pistol on the front seat of his running vehicle while he went in to a convenience store, another left his in a fast food restroom and it was gone when he went back for it ( Read more... )

The new ones that effectively removes your clothes and reveal you in all your natural glory? Well, our first story is that, when the machine is in test mode, it can send the image to a remote location. TSA said they cannot. They also say that test mode will be disabled before they will be delivered to airports and that they cannot be put in to ( Read more... )

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Apparently a pilot program started under the previous administration is deploying which will be scanning people's fingerprints as they are LEAVING the country. Supposedly they will only be scanning non-US citizen's prints. I'm sure there will be zero scope creep on this one ( Read more... )

Yep, your tax dollars hard at work ( Read more... )

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