Slashdot Items Tagged "securitytheater"

Date / Time Story
Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:44PM Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis
Thursday July 06, 2017 @09:24AM Airport security fails 17 times out of 18
Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:44PM TSA Replaces Security Chief As Tension Grows At Airports
Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:43PM TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could)
Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:34AM TSA Fails To Find Links To Terrorism of Airport Workers
Tuesday June 02, 2015 @08:22AM US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests
Monday December 22, 2014 @05:18PM TSA Has Record-Breaking Haul In 2014: Guns, Cannons, and Swords
Monday July 07, 2014 @04:52PM TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes
Friday January 31, 2014 @09:21PM Confessions Of an Ex-TSA Agent: Secrets Of the I.O. Room
Friday December 20, 2013 @05:31PM NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks
Wednesday January 09, 2013 @09:26AM British MPs Warn of 'Fatal' Cyber Warfare Strategy
Wednesday November 21, 2012 @06:11PM UK to use "Risk-Profiling Software" to Screen all Airline Passengers and Cargo
Monday November 19, 2012 @05:22PM Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch
Wednesday October 31, 2012 @02:02AM Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game?
Wednesday September 19, 2012 @09:49AM TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners
Wednesday September 19, 2012 @09:15AM TSA Spending $245 Million on "Second Generation" Nude-O-Scope Body Scanners
Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:20PM DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not
Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:10AM GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System
Thursday September 06, 2012 @09:28AM TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New
Thursday August 23, 2012 @09:16AM Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt
Thursday August 23, 2012 @08:41AM Booted from airplane for wearing anti-TSA T-shirt
Friday August 03, 2012 @07:54AM Federal Appeals Court Orders TSA To Explain Delay In Body Scan Public Hearing
Wednesday July 25, 2012 @10:11AM British Kid Flies To Rome Without Passport And Ticket
Wednesday June 20, 2012 @12:40PM TSA Bodyscanner Fail Video - Now with Surveillance Camera Footage!
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @12:02PM "Cyber War" Is Just the Latest Grab for Defense Money
Friday April 27, 2012 @10:26AM Terminal Mixup Implicates TSA Agents In LAX Smuggling Plot
Sunday April 01, 2012 @03:36AM DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba
Tuesday March 27, 2012 @08:20AM Congress Capitulates To TSA; Refuses To Let Bruce Schneier Testify
Monday March 26, 2012 @04:51PM Congress Capitulates to TSA; refuses to let Bruce Schneier testify
Monday March 26, 2012 @12:25PM Congress Wants Your TSA Stories
Wednesday March 07, 2012 @10:32AM The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners
Tuesday January 31, 2012 @04:50AM DHS Sends Tourists Home Over Twitter Jokes
Monday January 16, 2012 @06:09AM DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings
Saturday December 24, 2011 @11:07AM Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater
Saturday October 29, 2011 @01:23PM TSA's VIPR Bites Rail, Bus, and Ferry Passengers
Friday October 21, 2011 @07:21AM TSA Doing Random Truck Searches On Tennessee Highway
Sunday October 09, 2011 @09:10PM 2-Year ID Theft Investigation Yields 86 Arrests; 25 More Sought
Thursday July 21, 2011 @07:52AM TSA Body Scanners To Show Less Revealing Images
Wednesday July 20, 2011 @06:56PM TSA body scanners to show less revealing images
Thursday July 14, 2011 @01:21PM Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children
Monday June 27, 2011 @03:01PM TSA Has 95-Year-Old Remove Her Diaper For Screening
Friday May 13, 2011 @12:55PM Baby's First TSA Patdown
Friday December 24, 2010 @01:38PM TSA Investigates Pilot Who Exposed Security Flaws
Thursday December 23, 2010 @01:14PM US Dept of Homeland Security caught Blog Trollin'
Wednesday December 15, 2010 @04:27PM Air Force Blocks NY Times, WaPo, Other Media
Sunday December 12, 2010 @03:37PM A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy
Saturday December 11, 2010 @12:37AM Backscatter X-Ray Machines Easily Fooled
Monday December 06, 2010 @03:14PM A Nude Awakening — TSA and privacy
Thursday November 25, 2010 @07:34PM Homeland Security Drops Color-Coded Terror Alerts
Thursday November 25, 2010 @05:23PM A Peek At the National Opt-Out Day Numbers
Thursday November 25, 2010 @05:05AM Next Step For US Body Scanners Could Be Trains, Metro Systems
Wednesday November 24, 2010 @09:37AM Porno-activist ordered to wear clothes by TSA
Wednesday November 24, 2010 @07:46AM TSA Saw My Junk, Missed Razor Blades, Says Adam Savage
Friday November 19, 2010 @08:46PM Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA
Wednesday November 17, 2010 @08:50PM TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
Sunday November 14, 2010 @11:58AM National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches
Wednesday November 10, 2010 @11:10PM UK Terror Chief Blocked From Boarding Aircraft
Monday November 08, 2010 @05:48PM TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes
Thursday October 28, 2010 @09:48AM British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests
Saturday September 18, 2010 @10:09AM DHS Requires Your Travel Plans 72 Hours in Advance
Wednesday July 07, 2010 @01:43AM Police Stop Journalists From Photographing Metrorail System
Thursday June 17, 2010 @01:26PM California Tracks Parolees With GPS, Then Ignores Alerts
Monday June 07, 2010 @10:31PM The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK
Thursday May 27, 2010 @03:06AM Privacy theater - new term by Ed Felten
Wednesday May 19, 2010 @12:17PM Scientists Question Safety of New Airport Scanners
Saturday May 08, 2010 @03:55PM 9/11 Made Us Safer, Says Bruce Schneier
Friday May 07, 2010 @11:32AM 9/11 made us safer, says Bruce Schneier
Thursday May 06, 2010 @04:28PM TSA Worker Jailed in Body Scan Rage
Friday April 23, 2010 @03:34PM Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC
Friday April 02, 2010 @07:03PM US Changes How Air Travelers Are Screened
Tuesday March 09, 2010 @10:33PM Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers In '09
Tuesday March 09, 2010 @10:24AM Cybercrooks Surpassed Old School Bankrobbers in 09
Tuesday January 05, 2010 @07:19PM Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers
Tuesday January 05, 2010 @06:41PM Police Give Explosives to Unwarned Air Travelers
Saturday January 02, 2010 @08:05PM Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma
Thursday December 31, 2009 @02:49PM TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive
Tuesday December 29, 2009 @12:38PM TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight
Saturday December 26, 2009 @06:43PM Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight
Wednesday December 16, 2009 @07:53AM Israeli Border Police Shoot US Student's Laptop
Tuesday December 08, 2009 @02:47PM TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All
Friday November 06, 2009 @12:42PM Fear Detector To Sniff Out Terrorists
Tuesday November 03, 2009 @08:28AM Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker
Monday October 05, 2009 @05:37AM Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control?
Sunday August 16, 2009 @04:40AM Airborne Laser Successfully Tracks, Hits Missile
Thursday July 30, 2009 @11:05AM iPhone App Tracks Sex Offenders
Tuesday June 30, 2009 @03:37AM Comic Artist Detained For Script Containing 9/11 Type Scenarios
Friday May 29, 2009 @02:24AM Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints
Friday May 29, 2009 @02:15AM Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US
Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:33PM Build an Open Source SSL Accelerator
Wednesday December 10, 2008 @02:37AM Indiana Bans Driver's License Smiles, For Security
Thursday November 20, 2008 @02:52PM Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA's "Behavior Detection"
Sunday November 09, 2008 @04:59AM Schneier, Journalist Poke Holes In TSA Policies
Tuesday October 21, 2008 @04:24AM TSA Employee Caught With $200K Worth of Stolen Property
Friday October 10, 2008 @09:36AM TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags
Thursday August 28, 2008 @08:54PM Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows
Tuesday August 26, 2008 @08:25PM Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes
Thursday August 21, 2008 @01:24PM Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses
Friday August 15, 2008 @03:37PM "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK
Wednesday July 16, 2008 @11:20PM Linux kernel team not disclosing security flaws?
Wednesday July 09, 2008 @05:12AM DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers
Tuesday June 10, 2008 @02:31PM TSA Bans Flight If You Refuse To Show ID
Thursday May 08, 2008 @12:01PM US State Dept. Loses Anti-Terrorist Program Laptops
Tuesday March 11, 2008 @02:48PM MacBook Air Confuses Airport Security
Thursday February 21, 2008 @02:01PM Airport Security Prize Announced
Saturday February 02, 2008 @09:54AM TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain
Thursday January 31, 2008 @12:25PM NYC Wants to Ban Geiger Counters
Friday January 11, 2008 @04:29PM National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
Wednesday January 09, 2008 @05:20PM $500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
Sunday January 06, 2008 @08:15PM Anti-Missile Technology To Be Tested on Commercial Jets
Thursday January 03, 2008 @06:24PM Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions
Tuesday December 18, 2007 @12:37PM E-Passport Cloned In Five Minutes
Thursday October 25, 2007 @03:19PM Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000
Sunday August 19, 2007 @12:38AM Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready!
Saturday August 18, 2007 @08:33AM TSA's "Behavior Detection Officers"
Monday July 30, 2007 @03:52PM Schneier Talks to the Head of TSA
Monday June 11, 2007 @01:49PM Evolution of the 'Captcha'
Sunday February 04, 2007 @11:43PM MySpace Worm Creator Sentenced
Thursday January 18, 2007 @06:07PM DHS's 'Secure Flight' Program Proven Insecure
Sunday December 24, 2006 @09:25PM Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email
Sunday December 24, 2006 @11:30AM White House Forces Censorship of New York Times
Tuesday December 12, 2006 @02:14PM Sex Offenders to Register Emails in Virginia
Sunday October 29, 2006 @12:07AM FBI Raids Security Researcher's Home
Sunday August 27, 2006 @05:12PM Do Not Flush Your iPod