Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
North Carolina: Police Will Take Fingerprints from People in the Field
December 8th, 2010Here’s a glimpse at the future of the U.S.: Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded. And here’s what the opening phase looks like. Via: McClatchy: Next month, 13 law enforcement agencies in the region will begin using a new handheld device that lets an officer scan a person’s fingerprints and seek a […]
Walmart Public Service Announcement
December 7th, 2010Via: YouTube / U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
Human Resources
December 5th, 2010If Cryptogon had a “required viewing” list, Human Resources would be at the top. However, this is not a movie for beginners. I’ve been gazing down the barrel of this predicament of ours for twenty years and I felt my pulse quicken and the hair on my arms standing on end as I watched this. […]
TSA Frisks Groom Children to Cooperate with Sex Predators, Abuse Expert Says
December 2nd, 2010Via: Raw Story: An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a “game”. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a […]
Airport Style Security Screenings… To Ride the Bus
November 30th, 2010Next Step for Body Scanners Could be Trains, Boats, Metro
November 24th, 2010Via: The Hill: The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary. “[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said […]
TSA: No Body Cavity Searches
November 23rd, 2010Oh, thank you, Master. Via: U.S. News and World Report: The flying public has won a small victory in the fight over airport pat downs and more intrusive searches with the Transportation Security Agency: For now, the agency isn’t planning to take the next step toward body cavity searches. “We’re not going to get in […]
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
November 22nd, 2010Via: New York Times: On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh’s life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: book or computer? By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” his summer reading assignment. But he has managed 43 pages […]
Ron Paul: American Traveler Dignity Act
November 19th, 2010Via: Ron Paul: My legislation is simple. It establishes that airport security screeners are not immune from any US law regarding physical contact with another person, making images of another person, or causing physical harm through the use of radiation-emitting machinery on another person. It means they are subject to the same laws as the […]
Senators and TSA Defend “Love Pats” at Airports
November 18th, 2010It’s sexual assault. It’s state sponsored sexual assault. See: TSA – Sexual Assault. Via: CBS News: “I’m wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats,” Sen. McCaskill said.
