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BusinessWeek March 17, 2011 Jean Welsh	The Perfect Passport Case Protect your identity with a WANT Les Essentiels De La Vie passport holder.
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Reason July 2005 Julian Sanchez	Ten Percent Solution The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Secure Flight passenger profiling system reforms stall at the gate: Congress established 10 criteria to ensure the program would both be effective and protect traveler privacy. A March report found that only one benchmark has been met.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Government tests biometric ID card for U.S. transportation workers The Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) Program is now being tested at the Port of Long Beach Container Terminal, in Los Angeles. Over the next seven months, the program will expand to 34 sites in six states.
Reason September 2005 Jacob Sullum	Rant: ID Card Trick Can we count on the DMV to foil terrorists? If the government can't reliably distinguish those who should get ID from those who shouldn't, how can we believe it will be worth the trouble?
National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson	Transportation Security Card to Come Under Microscope Again The Government Accountability Office said it will release a detailed report on the transportation worker identification credential in February, which will include the results of covert testing at port facilities.
Salon.com November 27, 2001 Peter J. Ognibene	Memo to airports: Hire Big Brother Rigorous preflight screening of air travelers is the best way to prevent future terrorist attacks...
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	Port Worker ID Card Criticized as Wasteful and Ineffective The Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard in October began enrolling port workers in a long delayed identity card program even though the technology to read the cards may be years away.
InternetNews December 17, 2009	TSA Web Snafu Prompts House Inquiry In the wake of the discovery that a sensitive TSA document has been publicly available online since early this year, lawmakers are calling for answers.
Reason December 2004 Brian Doherty	Privacy in the Skies A yearlong chorus of anguish from privacy activists killed the proposed Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, better known as CAPPS II. Now enter Secure Flight.
BusinessWeek September 6, 2004 Kate Murphy	Zipping Through Airport Security The Registered Traveler Program can get you to the front of the line, but for travelers, it boils down to what they value more -- convenience or confidentiality.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	TSA Prepares to Take Over Responsibility for Checking No-Fly Lists The Transportation Security Administration will compare passenger data to federal watch lists and transmit any matches to aircraft operators.
Reason June 2004 Brian Doherty	Will It Fly The Federal Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System II (CAPPS II) is behind schedule accroding to the General Accounting Office.
InternetNews November 1, 2006 Roy Mark	Security Theater Indiana University computer grad student exposes TSA boarding pass program as more show than security.
InsideFlyer January 2009	AA Paperless Boarding Pass American Airlines is testing a new mobile boarding pass system for travelers flying from Chicago O'Hare, Los Angeles International and John Wayne Orange County.
Reason February 2004 James Bovard	"Dominate. Intimidate. Control." The sorry record of the Transportation Security Administration
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	L-3 supplies TSA with millimeter wave imaging portals for airport security Officials of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration sought airport security systems that use active millimeter wave technology to identify concealed threats, including metallic items.
National Defense September 2010 Stew Magnuson	Terrorist Loophole: Explosives Under Clothing at Airport Checkpoints "One of the hard lessons we've learned is that there is no single technology that is going to detect everything," Clark Kent Ervin, former DHS inspector general and now director of the Aspen Institute's homeland security program, said in an interview.
National Defense July 2012 Stew Magnuson	Beleaguered TSA May Wind Up Loser In Budget Battles As the Department of Homeland Security agency that comes into contact with the general public most often, the Transportation Security Administration has become one of the government's primary punching bags.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Aviation Security Remains Under Scrutiny Aviation security measures adopted since 9/11 have not significantly made passengers safer or have been cost effective, experts contend. They also noted that many weaknesses in the previous system remain, despite billions of dollars being spent to enhance air safety.
Reason March 2009 Brian Doherty	Follow Up: ID and Surveillance The techniques and practices for a universally tracked and databased America using RFID technology are out there and could be just five years away.
PC Magazine October 16, 2007 M. David Stone	Business Scanners Get Personal Office scanners don't have to be enormous machines that need a desk to themselves. A personal scanner might fit your workplace better.
Reason July 2008 Jacob Sullum	Ring Barers The Transportation Security Administration warns that incidents of female terrorists hiding explosives in sensitive areas are on the rise all over the world.
National Defense August 2012 Stew Magnuson	Airport Screening Technology Market to Shrink, Analyst Says The Transportation Security Administration has been on a buying binge since 9/11, but the good days for airport screening technology vendors may be winding down, a Frost & Sullivan report said.
PC Magazine April 20, 2005 M. David Stone	Scanning for Business Law offices, real estate agencies, and other paper-pushing businesses benefit immensely from fast document scanners that not only digitize pages but also organize them and make them searchable. Canon DR-3080CII... Fujitsu fi-4120C2... Plustek OpticBook 3600... etc.
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean	Airports Test Alternative Technologies for Checkpoints An influx of screening systems marks a coming of age in the security industry.
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Aaron Ricadela	Invasion of the Body Scanners Digital security scans are coming to more airports. They'll increase aggravation, but won't help security much.
PC Magazine March 12, 2010 M. David Stone	Visioneer Strobe 500 The Visioneer Strobe 500 scanner is both portable and a good choice as a desktop document scanner.
National Defense August 2010 Stew Magnuson	No Revival for Airport Puffer Machines Used to Detect Explosives The Transportation Security Administration has no plans to continue research into puffer machines that were designed to detect trace amounts of explosives on passengers.
PC Magazine February 6, 2008 M. David Stone	IrisCard Pro 4 The IrisCard Pro 4 combines convenient business-card scanning with reasonably high recognition accuracy.
National Defense March 2007 Grace Jean	U.S. Airports Still Lack Technologies to Detect Liquid Explosives Despite known terrorist threats, it could be years before airports in the United States are equipped with scanners to detect liquid explosives hidden on passengers and inside carry-on luggage.
PC Magazine May 10, 2010 M. David Stone	Canon imageFormula P-150 Scan-tini The Canon imageFormula P-150 Scan-tini offers desktop-caliber features in a portable package.... HP Scanjet Professional 1000 Mobile scanner... Plustek MobileOffice AD450...
PC Magazine September 13, 2006 M. David Stone	Expert View: The True Blue Document Scanner There must be a simple, one-step option to scan, recognize, and save the file.
Entrepreneur May 2006 Chris McGinnis	Don't Sweat It Airports are expected to be more crowded than ever this summer, but you can breeze through this travel season like a pro.
PC Magazine September 13, 2006 M. David Stone	Buying Guide: Document Scanners One of the benefits of creating text-based documents on a computer is that it's easy to find the documents again.
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Ritchie S. King	How 5 Security Technologies Fared After 9/11 Developed, deployed, and sometimes deep sixed
PC Magazine November 21, 2005 M. David Stone	Canon DR-2580C The Canon DR-2580C is the fastest document scanner we've tested for scanning and saving in searchable PDF format, but those who need software for document management or indexing to help organize scanned files must buy that separately.
InternetNews February 13, 2004 Roy Mark	Airline Screening Program Gets Failing Marks A new Government Accounting Office report concludes that the Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (CAPPS II) fails to meet funding criteria mandated by lawmakers.
InternetNews October 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Security is in the Vicinity The feds have a deal for you: a new passport card that some security experts are already criticizing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Homeland Security Briefs Biometric system helps secure Iraq bases... ANSI launches Homeland Security Standards Database... Smiths Detection partners with Paladin Capital Group... International Biometric Group delivers iris- recognition test report... TSA to deploy new technology to additional airports...
National Defense January 2007 Stew Magnuson	Maritime Domain Roadmap Seeks to ID All Vessels A layered sensor network that stretches out to the deep waters of the oceans will be required to track and identify every vessel approaching U.S. shores, according to a draft of the maritime domain awareness technology roadmap.
HBS Working Knowledge August 31, 2011 Julia Hanna	Improving Fairness in Flight Delays Airlines and the FAA don't like flight delays any more than passengers, but what's to be done? Researchers propose a "fairness" system that could save travelers time and service providers millions of dollars annually.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale	TSA to Introduce New Technology for Access-Control Enhancements The second phase of the Transportation Security Administration's Airport Access Control Pilot Program will include advanced video surveillance, RFID cards, iris-scan readers and hand-geometry readers.
National Defense March 2010 Stew Magnuson	Airlines Collecting Exit Data from Travelers Still Possible, DHS Official Says A controversial plan to have airlines collect biometric data from foreign passengers leaving the United States is still a possibility, a Department of Homeland Security official said.
PC World February 2005 Andrew Brandt	Biometric Passports Fail Early Privacy Tests The federal Department of Homeland Security spent the past six months testing biometric passport prototypes and wants to roll out the new technology as soon as possible.
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Michael Dumiak	Airport of Tomorrow In Germany, engineering giant Siemens tests features designed to make air travel less awful.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Homeland Security Briefs Ahura Corp. develops first militarized chemical identification system for first responders... TSA certifies Lockheed Martin's explosives detection-system upgrade kit... TSA orders 32 Explosives Detection System machines from L-3 Communications...
National Defense April 2010 Austin Wright	TSA Takes to the Blogosphere to Set the Record Straight At the airport, the Transportation Security Administration goes after potential terrorists. In cyberspace, it targets bloggers who may be spreading misinformation.