Bless your heart, TSA. You’re trying to protect us, but putting sensitive security information on the internet is not the way to do this.
I found out about it Sunday. The TSA posted their Aviation Security Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures on their website. Fortunately, vital information was electronically redacted (blacked out). Unfortunately, much of the redacted material can still be read. I won’t go into how it can be read, but it doesn’t take much and there are sure to be other posts that will tell you how. The TSA quickly removed the document from their website, but too late.
Listening to ABC News this morning, they seemed to take great pride in telling what kind of information can be found in the document to help terrorists bypass the security that is in place. This story doesn’t get into a lot of detail, but it goes into enough. It seems that all a terrorist group has to do is watch American news stories and watch American movies to get ideas on how to attack us.
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I am more concerned with the sensationalism that is going on with this story than the fact that SSI got out. The media is making is sound like we are an elite batch of super hackers backwards engineering the document in our underground hideouts.
It took less than a minute to figure out how to read the poorly redacted information using nothing more than the free adobe reader and note pad.
So what if it is known that the x-ray can not pick up a small wire, are we so arrogant to think that the governments that sponsor terrorism do not know the specs on an airport x-ray? Most likely those same governments have the same x-ray machines at their airports.
The information in the document is of no use to anyone except those that wish to hold the TSA accountable for their actions at the checkpoint.
For far too long the TSA employees have been making up rules to cover up for their own laziness or bad temperament. If you question their “authority” you are quickly informed that the SOP requires them to engage in what ever foolishness they deem and, no you can’t see the rule because it is SSI.