I am intrigued today by a story from the Associated Press out of Minneapolis about a 9-year-old boy who was able to grab another person's luggage off the baggage carousel, skip out of a lunch bill, get through security, and board a Delta flight to Las Vegas - all unaccompanied. This causes me to query [...]
Tag: homeland security
Privacy – a fallacy rooted in outdated realities.
Hello folks...have you met the USA PATRIOT Act? You may recall it as the sweeping piece of legislation passed about a month after the attacks on 9/11. The Act is so voluminous that it is said no legislator read it in its entirety before it was passed with virtually no discussion or debate. It all [...]
The state of the homeland’s security…
Billions have been spent on securing the homeland in the past decade. Apparently, the government forgot about securing one important facility in the homeland, which in my mind calls into question the overall security of the homeland. If the government can't protect a large facility that houses 100 tons of uranium at the Y-12 National [...]
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