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Spiderguy252
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 Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject: Freak leak: US airport security secrets on web |
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Freak leak: US airport security secrets on web
| Quote: | WASHINGTON: The US Transportation Security Administration accidentally posted a document online containing secrets related to airport passenger screening practices, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
The TSA operating manual, posted on a federal procurement website last spring, spells out technical settings of X-ray machines and explosives detectors and other passenger and luggage screening details, the newspaper said.
TSA officials quoted by the Post confirmed the lapse, and former agency officials and congressional critics said the oversight exposed practices that were implemented after the September 11 attacks and following other security incidents.
"It increases the risk that terrorists will find a way through the defenses," the Post quoted Stewart Baker, a former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security, as saying. The document also includes pictures of credentials used by US lawmakers, CIA employees and federal air marshals and describes when certain firearms are permitted past the checkpoint, said the newspaper.
The manual was posted on the internet in redacted form but blacked-out passages were easily recovered, TSA officials said. The newspaper quoted a former DHS official as saying the mistaken posting of the secrets was more a public relations blunder than a security risk because TSA manuals are circulated widely in the aviation community.
TSA officials said the agency was conducting an internal review of the case. "TSA has many layers of security to keep the traveling public safe and to constantly adapt to evolving threats. TSA is confident that screening procedures currently in place remain strong," the agency said. |
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Freak-leak-US-airport-security-secrets-on-web/articleshow/5320550.cms
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HAWK21M
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Dumb....
No Security practices manual is for public view.As it can disclose the methods/procedures followed & can be used as a means by bad guys to bypass the security system.
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