Report: Travelers love being scanned
Happy to help: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Continental Airlines tell USA Today that customers can aid the fight against terrorism by allowing security personnel to scan their mobile phones. Continental says travelers love “the convenience.”
The Transportation Security Administration’s scheme to scan mobile phones instead of boarding passes strikes me as highly hackable.
More significantly, it provides Homeland Security an excuse to point scanners at travelers’ mobile devices, which often contain their personal, and sensitive, private information.
Mark my words: this three-month pilot project (see below) is just the first of many that Homeland Security will launch to gain further access to the contents of mobile phones, even to commandeer them for intelligence and data gathering.
From USA Today, today:
The two-dimensional bar code, a jumble of squares and rectangles, stores the passenger’s name and flight information. A TSA screener will confirm the bar code’s authenticity with a handheld scanner. Passengers still need to show photo identification. The electronic boarding pass also works at airport gates.
My question is: What else can that handheld TSA scanner scan?
– Mark Baard
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People should watch the series “The Prisoner”, 1984, THX1138, logan’s run and all the other marvelous SF movies of the past.
What happens today would cause a riot in the streets in the past. Soon there will be no point of return. You are in the middle ages. You are the cattle being studied and used for profit for only a limited number of people who hold the strings tight in hand. They created a system that is self-regulatory. They have all the technology and knowledge to make it so. Creativity and intelligence is dangerous for them and need to be destroyed or routed to them via a harmless rewarding system putten in place. So work hard and enjoy materialism. They will watch your well being.
Hmmm… interesting article. I personally do not own a mobile phone, people I meet all think it is bizarre. I wonder if a day will come when anyone who doesn’t own one will be considered ’suspect’…
The government has way too much power already. Where will it all end? It’s like 1984.