Bag Cam

Has it been seven years already? Did replacing local airport security personnel with a gigantic government bureaucracy make us safer?

Jaunted has a nice writeup here.

Show #6 is now available through the feeds or from iTunes.
“New footage of CAREFUL baggage handlers. Plus inconsistent requirements, penetration testing of “Security Theatre”, behavior profiling, and creative uses of a Beer Belly.”

Direct links: AAC (8.5mb) | MP3 (9.6mb)

“Bagcam 2.0, airport efficiency in Switzerland, San Diego and Alaska, Homeland Security Today, Flightaware.com, Skyvector.com”.

Direct links: AAC (17.2mb) | MP3 (23.2mb)

Show #004 is now available through the feeds or from iTunes.

New bagcam, Shmoocon, Laptop searches at the border, The Pie Lady, and this week’s edition of TSA gone bad: nine ERJs destroyed at ORD. No we can’t make this stuff up!

Direct links: AAC (9.5mb) | MP3 (20mb)

Finally, salvation from smelly feet while checking through airport security. Maybe.

The DHS will get more resistance to unrestricted laptop border searches. Strange how many different groups are weighing and reporting on this story. Then again, maybe not so strange.

Also, great summary page from the EFF about travel screening.

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If this article about Delta’s Wifi rollout is any indication, we stand to have internet hotspots on more of the route between planetary hot spots. With a little knowledge, luck, manipulation and one of these wifi enabled SD cards, you could conceivably access your bagcam from your seat, then edit and upload the video while still in the air.

The Homeland Security Department has declared its right to seize laptops at the U.S. border indefinitely, but legislation introduced Thursday is intended to curb that power.

This hit the wires on 9/30/08, and CNET has a good writeup, with links to other information.

Finally, the first two shows are available.

You can subscribe to either the Enhanced or the Basic feed from the Podcast page.

• Show #002 (22mb in .mp3 format): Guns on planes, travel by train, cats in the xray and a Grandmother in handcuffs - all on this edition of the Bagcam Podcast.
• Show #001 (35mb in .mp3 format): The Bagcam Guys talk about the best travel days, getting through airport security FAST, and the basics of Bagcam v1.0.