The TSA employees who check you aren’t the problem

During this upcoming Thanksgiving travel time (I’m flying too) it’s important to realize that TSA agents at the gate probably have zero leeway in what they can do. Screaming at them when the problem is the policies of TSA is like howling at the customer service rep at the phone company when they screwed up [...]

TSA confiscates heavily-armed soldiers’ nail-clipper

Well now it’s just gotten silly, hasn’t it?

This might be a good time to remind everyone that approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns-but nothing that could have been used as a weapon.

But their nail clippers were confiscated…

Security expert Bruce Schneier has a must-read [...]

TSA security theater is reactive and ineffective

Golly, it seems like most everyone except ranking members of both major parties are saying the scanners are dangerous and the new procedures invasive and ineffective.

It aims at compliance and submission, says the Pirate Party of Oklahoma, in an enimently sensible interview with Third Party and Independent Daily.

What is the Pirate [...]