Wonderful, nay, Joyous! news about our wonderful TSA!

[thewayne]

Yep, your tax dollars hard at work.

First, TSA employee caught hording with $200,000 worth of stolen goods to be sold on eBay. And as of right now, you can't even demand a receipt if they seize your laptop at the border, but there is a possibility of a new bill forcing DHS to receipt seized equipment and return them in a reasonable time frame. I can find the links if anyone is interested.

"... a search of his house found a great deal of property pilfered from the un-witnessed searches that occurred after luggage had been checked, where the rightful owner was not allowed. 'Among the items seized were 66 cameras, 31 laptop computers, 20 cell phones, 17 sets of electronic games, 13 pieces of jewelry, 12 GPS devices, 11 MP3 players, eight camera lenses, six video cameras and two DVD players, the affidavit said.'"

So if you've flown through Newark in the last year or so and lost something electronic...

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/10/airport_screener_charged_with.html

http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/19/1618259


Second, Bruce Schneier and a reporter play games with airport security, including wearing Osama Bin Laden t-shirts, carrying books on jihad, not carrying ID, and splashing water on their face to make it look like they're sweating. TSA security's response? "Don't let it happen again."

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/17/2212203


Now don't you feel much safer?

Comments

[deborak]

Even if they're not thieving, they're incompetent. They are constantly breaking Bill's suitcases and losing the luggage straps after they take them off to rifle through his stuff.

[silveradept]

Isn't it nice to see how wonderful a job the TSA is doind to make us feel better and safer while providing no actual security?