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remember when people first started experiencing TSA and there were massive protests at how obscene and violating it all was, then uncovering how useless they we
by ck2 10mo ago
remember when people first started experiencing TSA and there were massive protests at how obscene and violating it all was, then uncovering how useless they were as fake security theater
and they were going to get it all shut down
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS NOW
so good luck getting rid of flock where people don't even know it's happening
Not sure if people realize that cellphone locations, several layers in the firmware and software, can be had without warrant by anyone YEARS LATER
- vatsachak 10mo agoThat's why it's good to use GrapheneOS*. In the future, hopefully the pinebook project succeeds
- rfl890 10mo agoYou mean GrapheneOS?
- gruez 10mo agoHow does using GrapheneOS prevent license plate readers from tracking where you are, or from you being groped at the airport?
- vatsachak 10mo agoI responded to the last point of the parent comment
- gruez 10mo agoGrapheneos doesn't stop cellphone tracking either. Cell carriers keeping track of where you are (or at least which cell you're in) is fundamental to how cell phone networks work, so a privacy focused android distribution can't fix that.
- ck2 10mo agoExactly, the tracking has to happen and there's no law to discard the data ever It's how we know even YEARS later EVERYONE who went to Epstein Island They didn't even have smartphones then, just regular cellphones Wired just bought all the tracking from a databroker, no warrant needed https://www.wired.com/video/watch/we-tracked-every-visitor-to-epstein-island https://www.wired.com/video/watch/we-tracked-every-visitor-t...
- stackedinserter 10mo agoMoreover, people are pissed off when someone's angry because of TSA bs. "Don't be an asshole, they're just doing their jobs". "Oh someone's first week on this planet".
- kjkjadksj 10mo agoWasn’t the first edition of the TSA scanner straight up showing pretty much nude photos of people? I seem to remember something like that. Now a days at least it just flags a region on a generic human model for more investigation. The funniest part though is you pay $80 every five years and just bypass it entirely. I guess they assume terrorists are too stupid to figure out TSA precheck is available.
- gnabgib 10mo agoAll my pre-check friends have to go through the nude scanner. And gave up bio-metrics. It's a two tiered security line - theirs is faster, but you need money to get into it (or fly business class+, or a flight crew, or know someone in the airport, or win the entrance-line direction lottery).
- kjkjadksj 10mo agoMost of the time they just send you through a standard metal detector. The state already has my prints from the dmv.