{"id":2026,"date":"2006-10-29T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/what-does-tsa-do\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T16:40:16","slug":"what-does-tsa-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/what-does-tsa-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does TSA Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2003327484_fakes28.html\">The Seattle Times: Nation &#038; World: Student creates Web site that automates fake boarding passes<\/a> By Joshua Freed, The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 A computer-security student says terrorists would have no trouble getting around the government&#8217;s no-fly list, and to prove it he set up a Web site that prints fake boarding passes. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before, any 12-year-old could have done it,&#8221; [Christopher Soghoian, 24, a doctoral student at Indiana University] said Friday. &#8220;Now any 30- or 40-year-old could do it as well.&#8221; <em class=\"mine\">[mjh: ouch!]<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Soghoian said taking nail clippers and liquids away from travelers is giving them a false sense of security, and he&#8217;s trying to show where the real threats are.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">&#8220;When they say &#8216;For security reasons,&#8217; everyone shuts up, everyone follows the rules and no one questions authority. And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s right,&#8221;<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times: Nation &#038; World: Student creates Web site that automates fake boarding passes By Joshua Freed, The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 A computer-security student says terrorists would have no trouble getting around the government&#8217;s no-fly list, and to prove it he set up a Web site that prints fake boarding passes. &#8230; &#8220;Before, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/what-does-tsa-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Does TSA Do?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}