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Virtual Strip Search Locations

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:11:23 GMT

clipped by: cheapogroovo
clipper's remarks: Also at LAX and JFK airports

Domestic locations Federal Court House (VA), Colorado Springs Court House (CO), Department of Corrections facility (PA), Los Angeles County Court House (CA), Cook County Court House (IL)

International airports U.K., Spain, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, Netherlands

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Tags: security, tsa, screening, airports

Scanners that see through clothing installed in U.S. airports

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:32:55 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: Many jokes come to mind--but I'll just make one about myself...Maybe they can find my penis, 'cuz I haven't see it in a long time....hahahahaha

Clip Source: www.japantoday.com

Security scanners which can see through passengers’ clothing and reveal details of their body underneath are being installed in 10 U.S. airports, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.

A random selection of travelers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York’s Kennedy, Los Angeles and other key hubs will be shut in the glass booths while a three-dimensional image is made of their body beneath their clothes.

The booths close around the passenger and emit “millimeter waves” that go through cloth to identify metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives, according to the TSA.

But the new machines have provoked worries among passengers and rights activists.

While it allows the security screeners—looking at the images in a separate room—to clearly see the passenger’s sexual organs as well as other details of their bodies, the passenger’s face is blurred, TSA said in a statement on its website.

Body Scanners Now Being Installed in US Airports

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:43:02 GMT

clipped by: maquser
clipper's remarks: But you don't have to accept them! Read for details on the scanner too, yeesh.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Scanners that see through clothing installed in US airports

NEW YORK (AFP) - Security scanners which can see through passengers' clothing and reveal details of their body underneath are being installed in 10 US airports, the US Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.

A random selection of travellers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York's Kennedy, Los Angeles and other key hubs will be shut in the glass booths while a three-dimensional image is made of their body beneath their clothes.

Lara Uselding, a TSA spokeswoman, added that passengers are not obliged to accept the new machines.

"The passengers can choose between the body imaging and the pat-down," she told AFP.

Tags: privacy, nudity, scary, airport, scan, check, tsa

New Scanners That See Through Clothing Installed In US Airports

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:58:49 GMT

clipped by: jmjoness

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Scanners that see through clothing installed in US airports

While it allows the security screeners -- looking at the images in a separate room -- to clearly see the passenger's sexual organs as well as other details of their bodies, the passenger's face is blurred, TSA said in a statement on its website.

But the new machines have provoked worries among passengers and rights activists.

The ACLU said in a statement that passengers expecting privacy underneath their clothing "should not be required to display highly personal details of their bodies such as evidence of mastectomies, colostomy appliances, penile implants, catheter tubes and the size of their breasts or genitals as a pre-requisite to boarding a plane."

Tags: airport, security, privacy, scanners, tsa

Airport Screeners Swiping Your Stuff?

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:51:41 GMT

clipped by: Rebecca Ruiz
clipper's remarks: According to this blogger, the Transportation Security Administration has a little stealing situation on their hands. What are they allegedly taking? Everything from an engagement ring to cash to designer eyewear to electronics. How can you safeguard your belongings? Elliot's recommendations include leaving valuables at home or taking them with you on the plane instead of putting them into a checked bag.

Clip Source: www.elliott.org

Since it was created in 2001, the agency has fired about 200 employees accused of stealing. Although the TSA has taken steps to discourage these government workers from helping themselves to our personal effects — including background checks on new hires, video cameras in screening areas and rules forbidding backpacks or lunchboxes at checkpoints — more and more passengers like Fleiss are coming forward to say they’ve been ripped off by the very people who are supposed to protect them.

It doesn’t help that hardly a week goes by without another story about alleged TSA pilferage making headlines. Here’s one from a Miami TV station, where 1,500 items have been reported stolen at the airport since 2003. Here’s someone who had his engagement ring filched by screeners in Los Angeles. Here’s another one involving a 12-year-old’s heartbreaking loss of $265 in birthday money.

The stealing isn’t as random as the TSA may want you to believe.

Dorfman Pacific Scala Classico Fedora

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:09:22 GMT

clipped by: ouyangwulong
clipper's remarks: It's tough to beat Dorfman Pacific for quality, and it's certainly hard to find anything cooler than a crushable felt hat!

3 inch brim means it has great coverage to keep the sun-burning to a minimum, and sheds water clear of your collar. It's also crushable!

Great style, even though its a kinda funky shade of sage. The material, crushable waterproof wool felt, is beautiful. Totally downpour resistant, except for where they stitched in the cotton lining, but it's not to big of a problem.

Best of all, did I mention it's crushable? That means I can stow it in my bag whenever I want, or even stuff it in my pocket. (For instance, at the airport, so that the TSA doesn't search me on account of my "head covering")

Probably the best hat I've ever owned.

Clip Source: www.rei.com

Dorfman Pacific All Season Crushable Hat

$38.00

This stylish hat features great looking fedora styling with a western flair; excellent and affordable headwear for outdoor adventurers.

Wool felt construction holds it's shape well even in the rain; crushes to fit in a bag or pack and snaps right back into shape

Cotton twill interior head band for itchless comfort against your forehead

Leather hatband

How to Skip the Airport Security Line

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:33:01 GMT

clipped by: Rebecca Ruiz
clipper's remarks: There's an easy solution to the problem of long security lines: pay to join a shorter queue. I've clipped about this before, but this author raises some interesting points about "registered traveler" programs. For a $100 fee and a $28 TSA background check, these programs give frequent travelers a fingerprint or iris image that allows you to join an expedited security line. The author argues that, "What looks to one person like flexibility looks to another like bribing your way through the system." What do you think?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

There have always been special queues for first-class check-in and boarding. Those are part of a private transaction between an airline and a customer. But two-tiered security checks are a different story.

So-called “registered traveler” programs, like Verified Identity Pass, which has about 100,000 members, offer private queues in more than a dozen airports. Anyone can pay a $100 annual fee and $28 for a T.S.A. background check. If you’re not a security risk, you get a biometric identifier (an iris image or a fingerprint) that lets you get in a new, faster line.

But something doesn’t add up. Even a suicide bomber can have a fixed address and a clean police record. The actual security procedures at the checkpoint — the rummaging and scanning and X-raying — remain indispensable. This means the background check and the biometric stuff are just mumbo-jumbo to hide the real nature of the transaction, which is a fee for a shorter line.

TSA Bans Nipple Piercings on American Flight

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:36:42 GMT

clipped by: fleshcanvas

Clip Source: cbs5.com

The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.

Hamlin said she told the woman that she was wearing nipple piercings. The female agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the body piercings, Hamlin claimed.

Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked if she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was removed, she said.

"Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her," said Hamlin's attorney,

She said she heard male TSA agents snickering as she took out the ring. She was scanned again and was allowed to board even though she still was wearing a belly button ring.

Airport security: "Nipple piercings? Here are pliers!"

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:03:29 GMT

clipped by: petercasier
clipper's remarks: no piercing too small to blow up a plane!

Clip Source: theroadtothehorizon.blogspot.com

Mandi Hamlin from Texas was about to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.

Tags: airport security, airplane, airlines, security, tsa, terrorism

SoCal Attorney: TSA Forces Woman To Remove Body Piercings With Pliers

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:58:11 GMT

clipped by: spherepet

Clip Source: www.nbc11.com

SoCal Attorney: TSA Forces Woman To Remove Body Piercings With Pliers

POSTED: 10:51 pm PDT March 27, 2008

UPDATED: 8:07 am PDT March 28, 2008

A Texas woman was forced by the Transportation Security Administration to remove her nipple rings before she was allowed to board a flight, an attorney said Thursday.

"The woman was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the rings in her nipples," said Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred. "The rings had been in her nipples for many years."

"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin, 37, said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."

Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems

The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest

Tags: body piercings, metal detector

Are body piercings really worth it?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:46:55 GMT

clipped by: kelvin273
clipper's remarks: Jokes aside, it's weird that nipple rings set off the alarm but belly-button piercings don't. It makes you wonder if male agents calibrate the machine.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Mandi Hamlin, at center with attorney Gloria Allred, demonstrates how she removed her nipple ring.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."

Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing nipple piercings. The agent called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.

She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.

She said she heard male TSA agents snickering as she took out the ring. She was scanned again and was allowed to board even though she still was wearing a belly button ring.

Tags: airlines, security

Traveler says she was forced to remove nipple ring

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:32:21 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Traveler says she was forced to remove nipple ring

"I wouldn't wish this experience upon anyone," Mandi Hamlin said at a news conference. "My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way."

Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on February 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.

The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.

Tags: travels, tsa, nipple ring, body piercing

Accidental Discharge in Flight!? Only in ...

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:27:54 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Shoot the Plane!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

GMT

Gun fired 'accidentally' on US flight

A gun belonging to the pilot of an American plane went off during a domestic flight at the weekend

The US Airways plane, carrying 124 passengers from Denver, Colorado, to Charlotte, North Carolina, was preparing to land on Saturday when the gun on board "accidentally discharged"

It was the first time a weapon issued under a federal scheme to arm pilots had been fired

Officials did not say where the bullet hit

The flight deck officer scheme allows pilots and others to use a firearm to defend against any act of air piracy or criminal violence

The federal transportation security administration (TSA), which was opposed to the arming of pilots, is now investigating how the gun discharged. It is being assisted by the air marshal service

agency is also investigating to ensure the plane is safe, and the airline has taken the Airbus A319 out of service

Pilots must volunteer, take a psychological test and complete a week-long government firearms training program

Tags: usa, weapon

P. Aeruginosa

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:13:53 GMT

clipped by: arieseyes84
clipper's remarks: ah,... bacteria.
This gets in your eye, it'll cause Keratitis which can lead to blindness.

Not Cool.

Clip Source: www.emlab.com

Laptop not TSA approved

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:45:30 GMT

clipped by: falconz
clipper's remarks: lol

Clip Source: www.michaelnygard.com

They pull my laptop, my new laptop making its first trip with me, out of the flow of bags. One takes me aside to a partitioned cubicle. Another of the endless supply of TSA agents takes the rest of my bags to a different cubicle. No yellow brick road here, just a pair of yellow painted feet on the floor, and my flight is boarding. I am made to understand that I should stand and wait. My laptop is on the table in front of me, just beyond reach, like I am waiting to collect my personal effects after being paroled.

I'm standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me. "There's no drive," one says. "And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be," she continues.

"It's a MacBook Air."