Tag: TSA

Foursquare has started awarding a special badge to anyone who checks in at an airport with words such as "TSA", "touch", "grope" or "Don't touch my junk!". The badge is called Baggage Handler. The text that accompanies the unlocking of the badge reads: Looks like you've had your baggage handled. Happy Holidays and have a safe flight! This, of course, comes right in time for National Opt-Out Day ...

We'll throw this in the "Whoops" category. ComputerWorld took some time to outline some of the best (or worst?) data security breaches of 2009. While the actual events might not have been too funny to the people involved, the blunders the technology world has dealt with are pretty comical now that they're safely resolved. Some of the highlights include the TSA getting a little too "open", ...

As we told you earlier, the TSA recently launched a new blog used to get suggestions from Johnny Everyman for improving the airport security process. And boy is it working. The TSA has already changed a practice in which passengers were required to take all their electronics out of their carry on bags during screening. Oh, so they instituted this national policy some time ago, then due to public ...

The TSA, that pesky (but very necessary) organization that makes us take off our shoes at the airport, has a new public face in the form of the Evolution of Security blog. By visiting the site and participating in the discussion through comments, the public helps the TSA in improving security measures. It plans to learn from its readers through the blog and will make changes to its policies ...

The TSA is supposed to protect us from terror in the skies, but they've recently given night-sweats to 100,000 employees whose personal data -- including names, bank routing data and Social Security Numbers -- have gone missing along with the external hard drive they were stored on. What's worse, among those 100k employees are the elite team of Air Marshals, the armed and mysterious force who ...

I just got back from some much needed R & R, and since I left before the most recent Homeland Security PR campaign terror scare, I spent a lot of time on the TSA website the last few days of my vacation trying to figure out the ever-changing array of prohibited items. It wasn't much help. It seemed like they were updating the regs hourly, but the website only every couple of days, and then in ...