{"id":618,"date":"2008-01-10T12:19:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/01\/10\/tsa-protecting-us-from-grave-threats-like-5-year-olds\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T19:48:10","slug":"tsa-protecting-us-from-grave-threats-like-5-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/01\/10\/tsa-protecting-us-from-grave-threats-like-5-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA: Protecting Us From Grave Threats (like 5 year olds)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that a lucky 5 year old shares a name with a fellow on the No-Fly List, and our ever-alert TSA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/video\/featured-index.html?nvid=206446\">intercepted and inspected him<\/a> in Seattle&#8217;s airport.  Even better, in a move that inspires a Dave Berry-like &#8220;I am not making this up&#8221; disclaimer, the TSA told the mother that she was not allowed to touch her son in the process, as he was a &#8220;security risk.&#8221;  The mother gets points from me for not turning that into a serious security situation right there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong> Looks like we&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/10\/another-fiveyearold.html\">another 5 year old national security threat<\/a> on our hands.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related:<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/30\/behind-the-security-theater-curtains-schneier-interviews-hawley\/\">Behind the Security Theater Curtains: Schneier Interviews [TSA head Kip] Hawley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems that a lucky 5 year old shares a name with a fellow on the No-Fly List, and our ever-alert TSA intercepted and inspected him in Seattle&#8217;s airport. Even better, in a move that inspires a Dave Berry-like &#8220;I am not making this up&#8221; disclaimer, the TSA told the mother that she was not allowed [&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,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}