Slashdot Items Tagged "securitytheatre"

Date / Time Story
Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:01PM TSA Bans Star Wars Coke Bottles That Resemble Grenades
Friday September 28, 2018 @12:22AM Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems
Friday August 24, 2018 @11:16PM Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone
Sunday August 12, 2018 @10:12AM Faces Are Being Scanned At US Airports With No Safeguards on Data Use
Saturday March 17, 2018 @01:56AM Facial Scanning Now Arriving At US Airports
Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:39PM US Border Officials Haven't Properly Verified Visitor Passports For More Than a Decade Due To Improper Software
Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:21PM Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says
Monday November 13, 2017 @02:41PM US Airports Still Fail New Security Tests
Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:39AM Travelers' Electronics At US Airports To Get Enhanced Screening, TSA Says
Thursday July 20, 2017 @10:44AM US Ends Controversial Laptop Ban On Flights From Middle East
Sunday July 16, 2017 @10:40PM Is Homeland Security's Face-Scanning At Airports An Unreasonable Search?
Wednesday July 05, 2017 @12:21PM Afghan Girl Roboticists Denied US Visas
Saturday October 15, 2016 @09:55AM Google Reveals It Received Secret FBI Subpoena
Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:51AM 'Social Media ID, Please?' Proposed US Law Greeted With Anger
Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:05AM US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter
Friday July 15, 2016 @10:14AM It Took Nearly Three Hours For France's Terror Alert App To Respond To Nice Attack
Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:35PM TSA Replaces Security Chief As Tension Grows At Airports
Saturday May 14, 2016 @11:41PM Homeland Security Cuts Causing Extreme Delays And Missed Flights
Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:40AM Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked In New Automated Attack
Monday December 21, 2015 @10:19PM Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years
Wednesday December 02, 2015 @07:08AM Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock
Tuesday November 17, 2015 @05:41PM Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy
Wednesday November 04, 2015 @05:27PM TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could)
Monday March 02, 2015 @01:51PM Dropping the TSA: A Growing Trend
Thursday December 11, 2014 @11:02PM Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary?
Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:37AM Sale of IBM's Chip-Making Business To GlobalFoundries To Get US Security Review
Friday August 08, 2014 @01:46PM Cornering the Market On Zero-Day Exploits
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @02:18AM MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures
Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:14PM FBI Concerned About Criminals Using Driverless Cars
Wednesday July 09, 2014 @09:43PM The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere
Wednesday May 21, 2014 @05:46PM White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act
Monday May 19, 2014 @11:14AM US To Charge Chinese Military Employees With Hacking
Sunday May 04, 2014 @12:24PM U-2 Caused Widespread Shutdown of US Flights Out of LAX
Tuesday April 15, 2014 @09:44PM How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion?
Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:46AM Yahoo Announces Security Improvements
Monday February 24, 2014 @01:18PM Speedier Screening May Be Coming To an Airport Near You
Friday February 21, 2014 @02:08PM TSA: Confiscating Aluminum Foil and Watching Out For Solar Powered Bombs
Wednesday February 05, 2014 @01:49AM EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020
Friday May 17, 2013 @10:04AM Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists
Wednesday April 17, 2013 @02:31PM Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President
Thursday March 07, 2013 @12:56PM Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes
Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:04AM UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo
Saturday November 17, 2012 @09:23PM Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch
Thursday October 25, 2012 @04:26AM Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @07:00PM NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots'
Tuesday May 01, 2012 @06:23PM NYTimes: "FBI Foils its own Terrorist Plots"
Thursday April 26, 2012 @12:40PM TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl
Wednesday April 18, 2012 @01:28PM Man Protests TSA With Nudity
Monday April 02, 2012 @04:46PM Navy Planning To Build Laser Cannon In Four Years
Sunday April 01, 2012 @05:55AM DHS Will Now Vet UK Air Passengers To Mexico, Canada, Cuba
Sunday April 01, 2012 @04:35AM Aviation Security Debate: Bruce Schneier V. Kip Hawley (Former TSA Boss)
Wednesday March 07, 2012 @02:57AM The Ineffectiveness of TSA Body Scanners
Thursday February 09, 2012 @11:18AM FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US
Monday February 06, 2012 @11:23AM Full-Body Scans Rolled Out At All Australian International Airports
Sunday February 05, 2012 @07:06AM Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect
Thursday February 02, 2012 @07:32PM Super Bowl Bust: Feds Grab 307 NFL Websites; $4.8M
Thursday February 02, 2012 @11:15AM The Hi-Tech Security at the Super Bowl
Wednesday November 16, 2011 @06:19PM TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
Friday November 11, 2011 @06:26AM Failures Mark First National Test of Emergency Alert System
Sunday October 30, 2011 @01:28PM Helping the FBI Track You
Friday August 12, 2011 @10:02PM Airline Pilots Allowed To Dodge Security Screening
Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:19AM Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal
Friday July 08, 2011 @09:16PM TSA Employee Stole $50k Worth of Electronics
Thursday February 17, 2011 @03:18AM Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill
Saturday February 12, 2011 @01:49PM White House Wants Phone Records Without Oversight
Thursday January 13, 2011 @10:37AM US Twitter Spying May Have Broken EU Privacy Law
Friday December 31, 2010 @10:20AM One Tip Enough To Put Name On Terrorist Watch List
Thursday November 25, 2010 @07:34PM Homeland Security Drops Color-Coded Terror Alerts
Wednesday November 24, 2010 @10:30AM Students Banned From Bringing Pencils To School
Wednesday November 17, 2010 @02:16PM TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:34AM UK Terror Chief Blocked From Boarding Aircraft
Monday November 08, 2010 @04:55PM TSA Bans Toner and Ink Cartridges On Planes
Thursday October 28, 2010 @09:48AM British Airways Chief Slams US Security Requests
Tuesday October 19, 2010 @02:06AM Pilot refuses full body scan, may lose job
Monday June 07, 2010 @01:37AM The Men Who Stare At Airline Passengers, Coming To the UK
Friday January 22, 2010 @07:03PM Full body scanners see all EXCEPT bomb components
Thursday January 21, 2010 @03:20AM Catch a plane, or wait for bomb squad?
Tuesday January 19, 2010 @12:25PM IBM Patenting Airport Profiling Technology
Thursday January 14, 2010 @12:47PM Challenge To US Government Over Seized Laptops
Friday January 08, 2010 @02:44AM Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws
Tuesday January 05, 2010 @01:03PM Can Imaging Technologies Save Us From Terrorists?
Sunday December 27, 2009 @08:02AM TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight
Tuesday November 24, 2009 @12:09AM Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls
Wednesday September 16, 2009 @02:41PM Feds Ask IT Execs To Throw Away Cellphones After Visiting China
Saturday September 12, 2009 @10:16AM A History of Wiretapping
Saturday August 29, 2009 @09:48PM Emergency Government Control of the Internet?
Thursday March 12, 2009 @08:03AM DHS To Use Body Odor As a Lie Detector
Saturday January 10, 2009 @06:17PM Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security
Sunday January 04, 2009 @04:09PM Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police
Wednesday September 17, 2008 @04:18PM New York Issues RFID-Encoded Drivers Licenses
Friday August 15, 2008 @09:52AM Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses
Thursday August 07, 2008 @12:07PM Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes
Wednesday August 06, 2008 @11:33AM TSA To Allow Laptops In Approved Bags
Wednesday May 28, 2008 @04:56PM What Examples of Security Theater Have You Encountered?
Friday May 09, 2008 @07:26PM UK Uses CCTV, Terrorism Laws, Against Pooping Dogs
Monday April 28, 2008 @12:08AM Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations
Monday April 21, 2008 @06:25PM Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia
Friday March 07, 2008 @10:36PM British Airport Will Require Fingerprints From Domestic Passengers
Wednesday February 20, 2008 @09:30PM Airport Security Prize Announced
Sunday February 10, 2008 @12:49PM Examining the Search and Seizure of Electronics at Airports
Friday February 08, 2008 @07:06PM TSA Changes Screening Based on Blog Suggestion
Friday February 01, 2008 @11:22PM TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain
Monday January 14, 2008 @01:48AM Lax TSA Website Exposed Travelers' Information
Friday January 11, 2008 @04:29PM National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50
Thursday January 10, 2008 @05:40PM $500,000 Prize for Faster Airport Security Checks
Thursday January 03, 2008 @06:21PM UK Moves to Outlaw 'Hacker Tools'
Thursday January 03, 2008 @10:11AM Airport Profilers Learn to Read Facial Expressions
Friday December 28, 2007 @06:58PM TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes
Thursday December 06, 2007 @02:40PM Most In US Have False Sense of Online Security
Thursday November 01, 2007 @01:34PM Schneier On the War On the Unexpected
Wednesday October 31, 2007 @10:27PM Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set
Thursday October 25, 2007 @08:55AM Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000
Thursday July 12, 2007 @09:56AM Bogus Company Obtains Nuclear License
Thursday May 31, 2007 @08:08AM Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror
Sunday April 22, 2007 @04:33PM The Germs' Drummer Arrested For Carrying Soap
Wednesday March 14, 2007 @06:05PM File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security
Thursday March 08, 2007 @04:09AM Remote Control To Prevent Aircraft Hijacking
Monday March 05, 2007 @05:58AM The Pentagon Wants a 'TiVo' to Watch You
Tuesday February 06, 2007 @04:11PM UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police
Friday January 26, 2007 @10:14AM Study Finds IE7 + EV SSL Won't Stop Phishing
Thursday January 18, 2007 @01:40PM Anti-Missile Defenses For Commercial Jets
Sunday August 27, 2006 @11:39AM Microsoft Puts Police Link on Messenger