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Schneier Covers Newest Lost Laptop, For TSA CLEAR Program

Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 (No comments yet)

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The TSA's CLEAR program where people can spend $100 to be "pre-screened" at airports and bypass security had a security hit recently when a laptop (doesn't this get old) with customer data was stolen.

Well gosh, how could they ever have seen that coming?

Anyway, Schneier covers the story and links to the TSA's response as well as taking a moment to denounce the program again along with most of what the TSA is doing for airport security. Since I've met the privacy officer for the TSA and know he knows what he's doing, the only reason I can come up with for this is that they're not listening to him when he's telling them not to put this kind of data on laptops unencrypted.

Update 8/7/08 – Looks like they found it.

Tags: Big Brother, Lost Laptops, TSA, Well Duh!

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