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US TSA eyeing Macs, iOS devices to assist mission
America's favorite frisking and body scanning team -- the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) -- is about to go Apple. NextGov is reporting that the TSA has put out a request to possibly purchase any number of Apple products to "support specific areas of TSA's Risk Based Counter-Terroris...
U.S. TSA to buy thousands of Macs, iPads, and iPhones; pilot Apple TV
“The agency charged with airport security plans to spend up to $3 million for 1,000 Apple computers and another 1,000 Apple handheld devices, including iPads and iPhones, over the next three years, contract documents reveal,” Dawn Lim reports for NextGov.“The devices will be use...
How TSA Plans To Spend $3 Million On Macs And Other Apple Gear
TSA plans massive pilot project using $3 million worth of Apple products TSA is the latest U.S. federal agency to make a significant investment in Apple technologies in what may be a move away from RIM’s BlackBerry and Windows PCs. The agency is set to start a pilot programthat will run ove...
How Did an 18-Month-Old Girl End Up On the No-Fly List? [Tsa]
A Toddler might drop a bomb in her diaper, but not the kind that would blow a plane out of the sky. So why was an 18-month-old girl named Riyanna booted from Jet Blue flight 510 in Ft. Lauderdale on Tuesday?More »
Delta Calls Cops on Viber Exec for Using His Own VoIP App In-Flight [Faa]
Talmon Marco, founder of the VoIP app Viber, was met at La Guardia airport this evening by a waiting posse of port authority cops. What did he do? Well, it's not quite as outrageous as Alec Baldwin getting in trouble for playing Words With Friends, but it's still a bit ridiculous.More »
Homeland Security Discovers Vulnerabilities in Airport Body Scanners [Tsa]
Federal investigators "identified vulnerabilities in the screening process" at domestic airports using so-called "full body scanners," according to a classified internal Department of Homeland Security report.More »
A Billion Details and No Precedent—An Inside Look at the TSA's Scrambling Start [Tsa]
Building the TSA from scratch in the months following 9/11 seemed an insurmountable task, unrivaled in both scope and size. In Permanent Emergency, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley vividly reconstructs the breakneck pace at which this gargantuan security agency came about and how it came to be...
Airport Terminal Evacuated After TSA Boneheads Neglect to Screen a Baby [WTFriday]
Authorities were forced to evacuate Terminal C at Newark International Airport today after TSA failed to screen a baby properly. Luckily nothing bad happened this time, but the oversight was more moronic than you might think—and potentially very dangerous.More »
How Far Would You Be Willing to Drive If It Meant Avoiding Airport Security? [Just Me?]
The TSA is quickly becoming America's most hated agency (you're welcome meter maids) and for damn good reason—stealing from veterans, hassling kids, hassling handicapped kids, and stealing from everybody else. They've become a greater threat than whatever they're supposed to be protecting u...
Naked Man Protests TSA in Nakedest Way Possible [Tsa]
To protest what he feels is harassment from the TSA, John Brennan dropped trou as he went through airport security in the Portland airport last night. I mean, he got ass naked. There's got to be a better way to practice social disobedience.More »
