Uncle Sam stonewalls probe into its secretive airport facial-recognition technology. Now the ACLU is suing
All your face are belong to US
12 Mar 2020 | 8
A dirty dozen of Bluetooth bugs threaten to reboot, freeze, or hack your trendy gizmos from close range
Over the air? More like over the aarrrggghhh
13 Feb 2020 | 8
'It’s not a surveillance program'... US govt isn't going all Beijing on us with border face-recog, official tells Congress
Lawmakers told: 'We don’t run the scans against any other databases'
11 Jul 2019 | 34
Auditors slam FBI for shoddy testing of facial-recog tech. But no big deal. It only has 641m images on its systems
No one has complained so far, fed honcho protests
5 Jun 2019 | 17
Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen
Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices
2 Apr 2019 | 405
ACL-Sue: Rights group takes on TSA over device searches
FOIA suit seeks info about snooping on domestic flights
14 Mar 2018 | 2
How we fooled Google's AI into thinking a 3D-printed turtle was a gun: MIT bods talk to El Reg
Video And mistook a baseball for a Monday morning coffee
6 Nov 2017 | 51
USA to screen tablets, e-readers and handheld games before they fly
Ten US airports already do it, the rest will follow soon, foreigners may be spared
28 Jul 2017 | 44
US laptops-on-planes ban now applies to just one airport, ends soon
Meanwhile the TSA found 78 guns at US airports last week, 32 with a round chambered
18 Jul 2017 | 70
US laptops-on-planes ban may extend to flights from ALL nations
'Real, sophisticated, threat' may mean ban on flights to and from USA says Homeland Security head John Kelly
28 May 2017 | 175
Boeing-backed US upstart reckons it'll be building electric airliners
Let's hope they walk the walk better than they talk the talk
6 Apr 2017 | 96
Now UK bans carry-on lappies, phones, slabs on flights from six nations amid bomb fears
Hit list: Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia
21 Mar 2017 | 105
Airplane bomb fears spark America's laptop, tablet carry-on ban
Updated Mid-East airports, airlines hit by tough luggage crackdown amid terror intel
21 Mar 2017 | 94
Confirmed: TSA bans gear bigger than phones from airplane cabins
Air travel to the US from eight countries appears to be affected
20 Mar 2017 | 109
Ubiquiti network gear can be 'hijacked by an evil URL' – thanks to its 20-year-old PHP build
Updated And, nope, no patch
16 Mar 2017 | 38
Revealed: 'Suicide bomber Barbie' and other TSA quack science that cost $1.5 billion
ACLU urges end to behavioral screening of travelers
8 Feb 2017 | 89
Samsung airport exchange
18 Oct 2016 | 5
Obama puts down his encrypted phone long enough to tell us: Knock it off with the encryption
SXSW Back doors, skeleton keys, just make it happen, nerds
11 Mar 2016 | 175
Oz railway lets newspaper photograph train keys
Your opsec slip is showing, Metro Rail
12 Nov 2015 | 9
Obama brain trust sidesteps mandatory hackers' backdoor idea
Accessible encryption given boot for being too hard, rather than for being morally suspect
25 Sep 2015 | 11
