Loss of Privacy

The FBI and the Department of Justice thinks that if you use anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address, then you could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. According to this flier, anyone who uses https is a potential terrorist, including google.

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If you think such policies are fine and don’t have anything to hide, then I would like to know your logins to all your online accounts, forums, and bank details, as well as your Social Security Number, and credit card information. I would also like a record of all your online purchases, you know, for “advertising” purposes. Oh you don’t want me to know that? Then maybe you do have something to hide and fliers like these are meant as scaremongering instead.

From WFAA:

Police suspect Clayton Keith Dovel, a Transportation Security Administration baggage inspector at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Terminal E, of stealing iPads from checked luggage.

Here’s a tip folks, don’t put electronics in checked luggage. The TSA workers cannot be trusted.

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They have a point. It’s also why I’m not staying logged in to any google account because of the privacy policy changes and why my mail accounts won’t be with google either (not that they are now anyway).

TSA workers at La Guardia airport in New York City found two pipes in a passenger’s bag so they removed them. Although they were determined to not be dangerous, the pipes were confiscated anyway and the TSA tossed them in a nearby bin that the TSA uses at their checkpoints. Everyone forgets the pipes are even in the bin.

Six hours later, a new shift comes on to work. This shift of TSA workers freaks out because no one knows how these pipes got in the bin, so the TSA workers call the police bomb squad out of “abundance of caution.” This “abundance of caution” does not apply to passengers because, at no point in time is the airport evacuated and no portion of the airport closed while the bomb squad investigates.

So, just what were those pipes?

Several law enforcement sources told CNN the objects were determined to be homeopathic medical devices.

Image is from the CNN story.