Privacy & Security

TSA Forces Cancer Survivor Flight Attendant to Pull Out Prosthetic Breast During Patdown

Flight attendant and cancer survivor Cathy Bossi goes through a body scanner, despite not wanting to expose herself to radiation. She’s taken back to a screening area for further examination. A TSA agent gropes her and asks, “What is this?” When Bossi tells the agent “It’s my prosthesis because I’ve had breast cancer,” the agent…

Privacy & Security Matt Buchanan

The Basic Things You Need To Know About Full-Body Scanners

What exactly are full body scanners? What are these health concerns surrounding them? What do you need to know? Here are the basics. What are full body scanners? Remember the X-ray specs of science fiction comics that would let people see through walls and clothing? Full body scanners are a bit like them. The scanners…

Privacy & Security Justin Mullins - NewScientist

A Message From a TSA Full-Body Scanner

There’s been quite a bit of scuttlebutt in the press and amongst the civil liberties crowd about what we—myself and my fellow full-body scanners—are coming to your airports to do. What is our real purpose? It’s measuring penises. There’s been quite a bit of scuttlebutt in the press and amongst the civil liberties crowd about…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

Woman Suing Federal Government After TSA Screeners Exposed Her Breasts to Entire Airport (And Asked for Video)

Listen, we know the TSA’s been unpopular lately. But are they really so bad? What about this time a TSA screener pulled down a woman’s blouse while frisking her? And then laughed about it? Yes. Yes, they are that bad. https://gizmodo.com/one-hundred-naked-citizens-one-hundred-leaked-body-sca-5690749 The incident occurred during the spring of 2008 at Corpus Christi airport, and has…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Airline Pilots Fight Against TSA Body Scans Too

Not only individuals are standing up against TSA’s body scans and practices, but the most powerful pilot union in the world is fighting them too, according to this ALPA security alert sent by a Continental pilot. Napolitano’s enemy list keeps growing. https://jalopnik.com/how-one-man-stood-up-to-the-tsa-5692198 The Air Line Pilot Association (ALPA) distributed this security alert on November 12…

Privacy & Security Jesus Diaz

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave…

Privacy & Security Joel Johnson

TSA Full-Body Scanners: Protecting Passengers or Padding Pockets?

Pilots hate them. Passengers who avoid them get a groping. They’re the TSA full body scanners presently deployed at airports near you. Their effectiveness is unclear. What is clear is that lobbying for them makes you a ton of money. https://gizmodo.com/get-ready-to-be-groped-much-harder-by-airport-security-5663219 Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for airport security and stopping the terrorists…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus

Your Ears Might Be Better For Identification Than Your Fingerprints

On a planet hosting 6.7 billion human beings, having proof you’re unique is of tantamount importance. The ear, it turns out, may be the best identification yet. Through a new shape-finding algorithm called “image ray transform,” which boasts 99.6 percent accuracy, according to a study presented at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics Sept.…

Privacy & Security Dave Mosher - Wired

The TSA’s Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous

This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet? In case you don’t recognize the image in the wallpaper, it’s this fake children’s book cover: While I’m really glad to see that…

Privacy & Security Rosa Golijan

How To Protect Your Accounts From Firesheep Hijacking on a Mac

Firesheep, the packet-sniffing Firefox plug-in that grazes on (and then BURNS!!!) public Wi-Fi networks, could leave your Facebook or Twitter account compromised. FireShepherd arrived last week to protect Windows users, but now Mac users have a defense measure: BlackSheep. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-stop-hackers-from-hijacking-your-accounts-with-f-5676841 No not that weird not-as-funny-as-Tommy Boy Chris Farley and David Spade movie, this is BlackSheep,…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

Artist’s Unique CAPTCHA Requires Visitors Also Be Artists

To contact Guy Abbott, owner of the web site Geee, one must simply learn to paint like Claude Monet. No big deal. [Geee via Geektoplasm via Neatorama]

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus

TSA Employee Was Busy Pranking Passengers With Fake Bags of Coke Instead of Testing New Security Equipment

Ah, the old “planting a fake bag of cocaine on a stressed traveler” trick—a classic! A recently released document reveals an idiotic TSA screener who, earlier this year, joked around with fake cocaine instead of doing his job. The man, whose name has been redacted from the disclosed reports acquired by The Smoking Gun, was…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Read 2600, the Hacker Quarterly, on Your Kindle

2600, the Hacker Quarterly, is now available on the Kindle for $3.95, a bit cheaper than you’ll find it on newsstands. Editor Emmanuel Goldstein says other platforms are being explored, too. [Amazon]

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

How to Stop Hackers From Hijacking Your Accounts With Firesheep

Firesheep. Created to demonstrate our vulnerability on public wireless networks, but still a viable way for prying eyes to assume your identity. Enter FireShepherd, a Windows application that jams Firesheep to keep your browsing private. Let’s set it up. https://gizmodo.com/preview/now-anyone-at-your-cafe-can-hijack-your-facebook-accoun-5672877 Turns out, there’s actually very little setting up to do! Lucky for you, and not…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

British Airways Slams TSA Over “Completely Redundant” Airport Security

If British Airways doesn’t watch their chairman’s mouth, they might just see their planes turned around when trying to enter US soil. Ok, I joke, but if I’m honest his views on the “completely redundant” airport checks sound entirely reasonable. Martin Broughton, the chairman of the UK carrier, had a verbal meltdown at the UK…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Iceland to be Swiss Bank of Secret File Storage?

Perhaps the seven key-holders to the internet should safeguard this secret data. Or maybe not—we don’t want the internet to go all Lord of the Rings with misuse of power. https://gizmodo.com/seven-people-have-been-entrusted-with-the-keys-to-the-i-5597964 The country of Iceland has suggested it should host contentious data, in light of Wikileaks ripping the US a new one and releasing documents…

Privacy & Security Kat Hannaford

Privacy and the Internet, Visualized

Is your personal information safe on the internet? Is there such a thing as online privacy? To answer life’s big questions like these, I always like to turn to a trusty Venn diagram. Just as I suspected! Fortunately some of us have nothing to hide. Not me, though. I got plenty, and I’m terrified. [Dave…

Privacy & Security Brian Barrett

12-Year-Old’s Firefox Security Flaw Discovery Nets $3,000 Payday

At 12 years old, I successfully conquered a pile of dirt when I moved it from one side of my yard to the other. Alex Miller, currently 12, conquered a difficult Firefox security flaw, earning $3,000 in the process. The reward was part of a security challenge levied against developers by the Mozilla Foundation. Find…

Privacy & Security Jack Loftus

Feds to Telecoms: Stop Upgrading so We Can Wiretap More Easily

Current law mandates that telecoms allow the government to snoop on you when deemed necessary. But with blazing advances in what telecoms offer, the government is left behind. They want to catch up. Their solution? Tougher law. A governmental task force made up officials from the Justice and Commerce Departments, FBI, and intelligence community all…

Privacy & Security Sam Biddle

Clever Robotic Curtain Doesn’t Let Passersby Peek Inside This Workshop

Having a street level abode can be really convenient at times, but not when it comes to privacy. Niklas Roy decided to fix that problem by installing a robotic curtain that follows onlookers passing on the sidewalk outside his personal workshop. The system uses a security camera, a curtain rigged up with some motors, and…

Privacy & Security Christina Bonnington

TSA Forces Cancer Survivor Flight Attendant to Pull Out Prosthetic Breast During Patdown

The Basic Things You Need To Know About Full-Body Scanners

A Message From a TSA Full-Body Scanner

Woman Suing Federal Government After TSA Screeners Exposed Her Breasts to Entire Airport (And Asked for Video)

Airline Pilots Fight Against TSA Body Scans Too

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

TSA Full-Body Scanners: Protecting Passengers or Padding Pockets?

Your Ears Might Be Better For Identification Than Your Fingerprints

The TSA’s Sense of Humor Makes Me Nervous

How To Protect Your Accounts From Firesheep Hijacking on a Mac

Artist’s Unique CAPTCHA Requires Visitors Also Be Artists

TSA Employee Was Busy Pranking Passengers With Fake Bags of Coke Instead of Testing New Security Equipment

Read 2600, the Hacker Quarterly, on Your Kindle

How to Stop Hackers From Hijacking Your Accounts With Firesheep

British Airways Slams TSA Over “Completely Redundant” Airport Security

Iceland to be Swiss Bank of Secret File Storage?

Privacy and the Internet, Visualized

12-Year-Old’s Firefox Security Flaw Discovery Nets $3,000 Payday

Feds to Telecoms: Stop Upgrading so We Can Wiretap More Easily

Clever Robotic Curtain Doesn’t Let Passersby Peek Inside This Workshop

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