Bag Cam

Show #10 is up!

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:47:00 +0000

Show #10 is now available through the feeds or from iTunes.
“U.S. Airways flight 1549, Shmoocon preps, Presidential security issues, and what NOT to do after you get aboard an aircraft…”

Direct links: AAC (10.1mb) | MP3 (9.1mb)

Bagcam Podcast 009: When it all goes bad

admin — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:29:27 +0000

Show #9 is now available through the feeds or from iTunes.
“What do you do when it all goes bad? Tips for dealing with air travel in the face of screaming kids, gate agents, other passengers, bad weather, and disasters.”

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

Happy Birthday TSA

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:39:48 +0000

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.

Bagcam 006: Security Theatre and Beer Bellies

admin — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:56:16 +0000

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 005 is available through the feeds or from iTunes.

admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:16:39 +0000

“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)

Bagcam 004: Bad batteries, Bad pies, and TSA gone bad

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:12:40 +0000

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)

Leave your shoes on

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:23:02 +0000

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

More info on the laptop protection bill

rezonate — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:03:05 +0000

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.

Bagcam QR Code

rezonate — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:44:24 +0000

Here’s our QR Code. Use Barcode
or BeeTagg
on the iPhone, or your favorite cell phone QR Decoder.
You can learn more about QR Codes, or even make your own.

Wifi on Planes?

rezonate — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:42:02 +0000

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.