The Lippard Blog

As this blog has reported on multiple prior occasions (in 2006 , 2008 , and 2009 , at the very least), the fact that U.S. airport security s...

Looks like the air marshals have a problem similar to the TSA and the Border Patrol : Shawn Nguyen bragged that he could sneak anyth...

Jeffrey Goldberg explains why in The Atlantic . The check for whether you're on the no-fly list is at the time of ticket purchase and c...

The ACLU reports that the Terrorist Screening Center's watch list reached 700,000 names in September 2007 , and is adding 20,000 new nam...

Check it out here . I'm not on the list, but my 13-year-old nephew is, due to his common last name. (Via Bruce Schneier's Blog .)

Barbara Peterson took a job as a TSA screener and has written an interesting description of her experience for Conde Nast Traveler . She bl...

A web page on the TSA's website for travelers "who were told you are on a Federal Government Watch List" displays evidence of ...

The December 17 New York Times has a great article on airport security , with quotes from Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze. A few key paragra...

The TSA badly failed a recent set of tests at Newark's Liberty Airport. TSA screeners missed 90% of the guns and explosives that teste...

Security researcher Chris Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University's School for Informatics and an intern at Google, set up a ...

Maher Arar, a Canadian (born in Syria) who was arrested by the U.S. and sent to Syria where he was tortured as a result of the RCMP's e...

Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes has obtained a copy of the no-fly list being used for airline passenger screening . The list includes people who ...

Ryan Bird wrote "Kip Hawley is an idiot" on his clear plastic bag of toiletries that he was carrying through a TSA security checkp...

In Stephen Colbert's discussion of the liquids he takes with him while traveling (on YouTube ), he asked whether custard is a liquid. A...

CNN : Tisha Presley, bound for Fort Bragg, North Carolina, hurriedly sipped from her bottled water before going through security at the Atla...

Investigators for the General Accountability Office conducted tests at 21 airports to test screeners' ability to detect bomb components...

Sunday morning's first session was by Stuart Krone, billed as a computer security expert working at Intel. Krone, wearing a National Sec...