{"id":1572,"date":"2007-07-09T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/crack-security-screening\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T15:32:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:32:12","slug":"crack-security-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/crack-security-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Crack Security Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t read the local paper regularly, so it took a LiveJournal post to alert me to <a href=\"http:\/\/timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=603177&#038;category=REGIONOTHER&#038;BCCode=&#038;newsdate=7\/9\/2007\">this story from the <cite>Times Union<\/cite><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The unannounced inspection by TSA officials took place early last week. [Albany International Airport&#8217;s] security measures failed in five of seven tests, most of the problems occurring at the passenger checkpoint, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>In one test, TSA inspectors hid the components of a fake bomb in carry-on luggage that also contained a bottle of water. Passengers are prohibited from carrying containers holding more than three ounces of liquids, gels or aerosols through airport checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The screeners at Albany International confiscated the water bottle but missed the bomb. In all, the inspectors slipped four banned items through the main checkpoint during the test, sources said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s just fantastic. I&#8217;m flying out of Albany on Friday. I guess I can look forward to having my bags rifled through by the security personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t read the local paper regularly, so it took a LiveJournal post to alert me to this story from the Times Union: The unannounced inspection by TSA officials took place early last week. [Albany International Airport&#8217;s] security measures failed in five of seven tests, most of the problems occurring at the passenger checkpoint, the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/07\/09\/crack-security-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crack Security Screening<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}