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The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones as well. The likely reaction of airlines will be to implement new traveler programs, effe… Continue reading Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban
The Department of Homeland Security is rumored to be considering extending the current travel ban on large electronics for Middle Eastern flights to European ones as well. The likely reaction of airlines will be to implement new traveler programs, effectively allowing wealthier and more frequent fliers to bring their computers with them. This will only exacerbate the divide between the… Continue reading Extending the Airplane Laptop Ban
I’ve been reading a bunch of anecdotal reports that the TSA is starting to scan paper separately: A passenger going through security at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) recently was asked by security officers to remove all paper products from his bag. Everything from books to Post-It Notes, documents and more. Once the paper products were removed, the passenger had… Continue reading Why Is the TSA Scanning Paper?
Last Monday, the TSA announced a peculiar new security measure to take effect within 96 hours. Passengers flying into the US on foreign airlines from eight Muslim countries would be prohibited from carrying aboard any electronics larger than a smartpho… Continue reading The TSA’s Selective Laptop Ban
Last Monday, the TSA announced a peculiar new security measure to take effect within 96 hours. Passengers flying into the US on foreign airlines from eight Muslim countries would be prohibited from carrying aboard any electronics larger than a smartphone. They would have to be checked and put into the cargo hold. And now the UK is following suit. It’s… Continue reading The TSA’s Selective Laptop Ban
News reports say the US will temporarily ban passengers from 13 countries from carrying electronics onto planes. Continue reading Banning Electronics From Flights ‘Fails the Logic Test’
There’s been a lot of buzz about this on Twitter, if you’re visiting the states anytime soon you might want to have your social media login credentials handy – as they might be requesting them at the border. I find the whole thing rather contrived though as I use 2FA for everything, so they are […]
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There’s been a lot of buzz about this on Twitter, if you’re visiting the states anytime soon you might want to have your social media login credentials handy – as they might be requesting them at the border. I find the whole thing rather contrived though as I use 2FA for everything, so they are […]
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Officials with responsibility for cybersecurity at government agencies are being pulled in opposite directions by competing priorities, a senior Transportation Security Administration official said Wednesday. “There’s two diametrically opposed opposed ideas every day when I go to work,” Paul Morris, the agency’s chief information security officer, said at the Verizon Future of Government Summit produced by […]
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Former TSA Administrator Kip Hawley wrote an op-ed pointing out the security vulnerabilities in the TSA’s PreCheck program: The first vulnerability in the system is its enrollment process, which seeks to verify an applicant’s identity. We know verification is a challenge: A 2011 Government Accountability Office report on TSA’s system for checking airport workers’ identities concluded that it was “not… Continue reading Security Risks of TSA PreCheck