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• An honest question for the TSA

  
  Chasing Sunsets — Authority: 124
  dwineman : Every day at your airport checkpoints, you screen thousands of passengers for objects that could conceivably be used as a weapons. If you find one, you confiscate it, and the unfortunate traveler continues on her way, cupcakeless but no longer a threat to national security. You’re also looking for ...
  1 week ago

• Heres where we need a real orbital-capable truck

  
  Irons in the Fire — Authority: 425
  Go up with a bunch of small boosters, and set them to push problems either into reentry to burn up, or out to a go away orbit. Smaller stuff you run across, either bundle together to dump, or maybe bring back. It occurred to me last night that between Oklahoma and Germany, the son is probably better prepared for ...
  3 weeks ago

• TSA-compliant cupcakes: "I am not a gel"

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Inspired by Rebecca Hains harrowing tale of cupcake confiscation by the Las Vegas TSA, Providence, RIs Silver Spoon Bakery is selling "TSA-compliant cupcakes." These have exactly three ounces of frosting, and come in a ziplock baggie with a boarding card and a little Richard Nixon badge bearing the legend, "I am ...
  3 weeks ago

• Introducing The TSA Compliant Cupcake

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 127
  But my guess is that the idiots will still confiscate it . After all, it might threaten a non-TSA citizen with obesity or something. Filed under: Government Tagged: Airport Security , Bureacracy , Cupcakes , Failure , Security Theater , TSA
  3 weeks ago

• Junior TSA badges for young fliers

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Neal Stephenson snapped a pic of this Junior TSA badge during his REAMDE tour. He notes, "Remember when we used to give them little pilots wings?" Junior TSA badge ( via Beth Pratt )
  3 weeks ago

• TSA To Begin Having Agents Wear Devices To Measure Cumulative Radiation Exposure From ‘Safe’ Scanners

  
  Flight Wisdom — Authority: 459
  Image by Martin Deutsch via Flickr There’s no health risk from the invasive scanners that the TSA has installed at airports around the country, the TSA has maintained.  If you don’t like it, you can be searched in an inappropriately intimate way, or not allowed to fly.  Now, the agency plans to begin testing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fatal Confection at Large in the USA?

  
  Stinque — Authority: 124
  Criminally negligent TSA agents seized an alleged cupcake bomb from Massachusetts college lecturer Rebecca Hains on Christmas Eve at a Las Vegas airport and, as of last night, no one at the agency has been able to produce a record of the disposition of the purportedly fatal confection. No one knows if the alleged ...
  4 weeks ago

• Schneier on Security: The TSA Proves its Own Irrelevance

  
  marfdrat — Authority: 426
  If you haven’t heard of Bruce Schneier, he’s pretty well-known for regularly skewering the Transportation Safety Administration for its general uselessness in “preventing additional terror attacks.” Schneier maintains that the TSA is mostly a giant money-wasting government boondoggle that gives the ...
  4 weeks ago

• TSAs brags about not catching any terrorists, proves its own irrelevance

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  Bruce Schneier looks at the TSAs brag sheet , documenting the "Top 10 Good Catches of 2011" and finds "mostly forgetful, and entirely innocent, people. Note that they fail to point out that the firearms and knives would have been just as easily caught by pre-9/11 screening procedures." Thats right; not a single ...
  4 weeks ago

• TSA defends cupcake confiscation

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 837
  (Shoop-Illustration: Xeni Jardin) On the TSA blog, a defense of the recent confiscation of a cupcake at Las Vegas International airport over concerns the tasty morsel was a terrorist threat. Cory blogged about the incident on Boing Boing , and pointed to a parody song about it here . The internet loves cupcakes ...
  4 weeks ago

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