{"id":63,"date":"2008-01-11T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T20:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=63"},"modified":"2008-01-11T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T20:42:11","slug":"five-year-olds-as-national-security-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/01\/11\/five-year-olds-as-national-security-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-year olds as national security threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing has stories on not one but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/10\/another-fiveyearold.html\">two five-year-olds whose names are on the no-fly list<\/a> and so get treated by the TSA as a security threat.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/09\/tsa-searches-detains.html\">Cory Doctorow comments<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, if you wanted to systematically discredit the idea of a Department of Homeland Security, if you wanted to make an utter mockery of aviation safety, you could <em>not<\/em> do a better job than this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>although I think that&#8217;s not giving the TSA enough credit: DHS continuing to employ the company that wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/27bstroke6\/2008\/01\/cronyism-led-to.html\">the TSA web site filled with vulnerabilities asking for traveller&#8217;s social security numbers<\/a> and other personal information is equally effective at discrediting themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boing Boing has stories on not one but two five-year-olds whose names are on the no-fly list and so get treated by the TSA as a security threat.\u00c2\u00a0 Cory Doctorow comments You know, if you wanted to systematically discredit the idea of a Department of Homeland Security, if you wanted to make an utter mockery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[313,371,373],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-privacy","tag-security","tag-travel","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}