Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets

[henktermaat]

Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets - ABC News

The PDF:
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/ht_tsa_screening_2_091208.pdf

In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.

The most sensitive parts of the 93-page Standard Operation Procedures were apparently redacted in a way that computer savvy individuals easily overcame.

The document shows sample CIA, Congressional and law enforcement credentials which experts say would make it easy for terrorists to duplicate.

The improperly redacted areas indicate that only 20 percent of checked bags are to be hand searched for explosives and reveal in detail the limitations of x-ray screening machines.

 

[rambone]

That's awfully nice of ABC News to provide a link to the TSA secrets, in case any terrorists missed them during the security breach.

 

[Cwood]

That's awfully nice of ABC News to provide a link to the TSA secrets, in case any terrorists missed them during the security breach.

Thats because they are the terrorists!

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I fly next in January. I'm going to print this off and bring it with me.

"You're doing that wrong!"

 

[Lex Concord]

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

 

[Cat-Herder]

sounds like the tsa needs to go back to their pre-9/11 jobs: flipping burgers.

 

[Woodsman]

Someone (anyone want to guess who) will blame it on Pres. Bush. Everything is his fault anyway according to the boy president.

Seriously, someone should be put in prison for this and have to defend their soap on a rope.