{"id":3560,"date":"2009-12-08T02:08:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2009-12-08T02:08:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T06:08:27","slug":"the-official-guide-to-how-the-tsa-will-treat-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/12\/08\/the-official-guide-to-how-the-tsa-will-treat-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Official Guide to How the TSA Will Treat You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderingaramean.com\/2009\/12\/tsa-makes-another-stupid-move.html\">This post<\/a> links to the TSA&#8217;s screening point operations manual.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems that someone at TSA had the bright idea to post it in a rather weakly redacted manner.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll skip over the fact that the entire document itself seems to be marked SSI (that is, Sensitive Security Information &#8211; not to be disclosed), and shouldn&#8217;t have been posted at all &#8211; redacted or otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll go straight to noting that it was redacted using the same pointless method that has been derided since . . . the late 90s?\u00c2\u00a0 Which means, of course, that we all get to see which passports send you straight to secondary screening, which putative bans aren&#8217;t enforced, etc.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 In the end, it&#8217;s a lot of terribly unsurprising stuff, but the point is that the super duper triple probation secrets that the TSA has be working so hard to keep obscure are all, well, kinda stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 I think we&#8217;d all be better off knowing and understanding these guidelines in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post links to the TSA&#8217;s screening point operations manual.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems that someone at TSA had the bright idea to post it in a rather weakly redacted manner.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll skip over the fact that the entire document itself seems to be marked SSI (that is, Sensitive Security Information &#8211; not to be disclosed), and shouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This post links to the TSA&#039;s screening point operations manual.\u00c2 Seems that someone at TSA had the bright idea to post it in a rather weakly redacted manner.\u00c2 We&#039;ll skip over the fact that the entire document itself seems to be marked SSI (that is, Sensitive Security Information - not to be disclosed), and shouldn&#039;t\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"law,travel\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/12\/08\/the-official-guide-to-how-the-tsa-will-treat-you\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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