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More TSA woes for those that fly

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May 25, 2017, 08:18 PM
comet24
More TSA woes for those that fly
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I have a Social Security card, a Selective Service card, paid federal income taxes and did tax returns for 45 years, applied for and received Social Security benefits, passed numerous NICS checks, applied for a National Parks pass, etc. You think they’d know me by now.

I made an appointment tomorrow to get a TSA PreCheck card. If another card will make them happy...


A very good friend travels alot mostly for work. A few years back he got Global Entry to make getting back into the US less time consuming. He was a little annoyed like you that he really needed to go through all the hoops. FWIW he is USSS and routinely fly's armed as well as walks through the WH armed.

He also walked into his interview armed.


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June 01, 2017, 09:37 PM
maxwayne
They did not do too much checking as my wife and I both got approved within a week or so. Maybe they went back 50 years and looked at my TS clearance info.
June 02, 2017, 11:14 AM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by Icabod:
"You'll have to show us a driver's license."
V-Tail looks embarrassed and says, "They took it away from me after The Incident."


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June 02, 2017, 11:25 AM
ensigmatic
It's about to get worse...

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Get ready for the coming business travel crisis

By Mike Elgan

Contributing Columnist, Computerworld | May 27, 2017 3:40 AM PT

While corporate IT departments are focusing on a new wave of data security threats, including WannaCry, an even bigger threat looms and nobody is addressing it.

I'm talking about the rules around laptops, tablets and smartphones during business travel.

The new risk of air travel data exposure is coming in two forms. First is a laptop ban. The other is a policy of smartphone data extraction.

Full article: Get ready for the coming business travel crisis

I used to *love* air travel. Not any more. Between the Gestapo security theatre at airports, airlines treating their passengers like cattle, the increasingly irresponsible operation of airliners and the air traffic control system, and the (admittedly remote) possibility of terrorism: I want nothing whatsoever to do with getting on a commercial airliner.


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June 02, 2017, 12:54 PM
Todd Huffman
I may be going to Idaho this fall, and the 35 hour drive looks more and more appealing.



Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago.
June 02, 2017, 12:57 PM
nhtagmember
at some point the airlines are going to have to start paying passengers to fly on their airlines given all the bullshit for 9th world treatment

hey Delta, you want me to fly from Phoenix to Manchester - I charge $1500


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