If any of you reading this think you are safe because you have Sprint, AT&T, or any other wireless carrier… You are dead wrong. Only Verizon got caught; You know this is happening with every communications provider. You can feel it in your gut.
I can not type words to describe how I feel. So here is a comment from reddit that sums it up nicely: Continue reading
So this just happened… Police can collect DNA from arrestees.
I have to be honest and say this scares the crap out of me. No DNA should be taken from any individual without a court order, i.e. a judge must be presented evidence that makes him believe that the DNA evidence will effect the case. And if the person is found innocent, the DNA should be destroyed.
So I just got back from some SAP training in Dallas and I had to put up with the TSA. Since my airport now has a SafeFlight 3000(TM) (a.k.a full body scanner) all passengers were lined up to go through.
Of course I declined, and was escorted to the end of the line were I received a pat down. The TSA officer, was courteous but could not understand why I did not want to go through the device that cost anywhere between $500K and $2M dollars of my tax money but does not make me feel any safer.
If the TSA actually cared about my safety, instead of frivolously spending large amounts of my tax dollars, they would do one of the following:
This year I have flown out of Las Vegas (LAS), San Antonio (SAT), Dallas/Ft.Worth (DFW), and Orlando/Sanford (SFB). In every one of them the full body scanner was used to scan the “random” traveler coming trough security. The reality is it slows down the screening process with no real gain. I wonder home many people queue through that trophy not knowing that they can easily bypass it?
