{"id":531,"date":"2005-06-08T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T13:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=531"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:20:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:20:45","slug":"schneier-on-security-tsa-abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/08\/schneier-on-security-tsa-abuse-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Schneier on Security: TSA Abuse of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/tsa_abuse_of_po.html\">Schneier on Security: TSA Abuse of Power<\/a><br \/>\nReading this made me cringe. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said &#8216;not at this point &#8230; you don&#8217;t have any&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Am I wrong to be worried about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this made me cringe. Am I wrong to be worried about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-8z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":437,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/03\/28\/tsa-lied-about-protecting-passenger-data\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":0},"title":"TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Incompetence. Utter contempt for the citizens of this country, and their rights. ARGH!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1324,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/09\/02\/the-tsas-photo-id-rules-are-useless\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":1},"title":"The TSA&#8217;s Photo ID Rules are Useless","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The rules that the TSA has rolled out regarding photo IDs and their requirements for getting onto passenger airplanes are usless. In fact, you could argue that they are worse than useless, since they create a false sense of security - and they cost us a lot of money (both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":250,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/10\/22\/schneier-on-security-rfid-passports\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":2},"title":"Schneier on Security: RFID Passports","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Another article about the RFID passport \"idea.\" Schneier is right on - it's a BAD idea.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1226,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/24\/tsa-too-much-power-too-little-accountability\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":3},"title":"TSA &#8211; Too much power, too little accountability","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This article from \"Ask the Pilot\" by Patrick Smith is well worth reading. It recounts a story that a pilot had with the TSA people. Let me give you just one little snippet: \"Ma'am, that's an airline knife. It's the knife they give you on the plane.\" You can probably\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;society&quot;","block_context":{"text":"society","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/society\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":652,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/09\/26\/schneier-on-security-man-arrested-for-being-a-computer-nerd\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":4},"title":"Schneier on Security: Man Arrested for Being A Computer Nerd","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce Schneier links to another chilling story of security gone too far.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/01\/dhs-enforces-copyright\/","url_meta":{"origin":531,"position":5},"title":"DHS Enforces Copyright?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce has got a good point - and he raises a good question: \"why is the Department of Homeland Security busting video pirates?\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}