Comments on: US airport screeners missed 95% of weapons, explosives in undercover tests | Ars Technica https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/06/09/us-airport-screeners-missed-95-of-weapons-explosives-in-undercover-tests-ars-technica/ All about electronics and circuit design Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:35:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/06/09/us-airport-screeners-missed-95-of-weapons-explosives-in-undercover-tests-ars-technica/comment-page-1/#comment-1753579 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 11:17:27 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=32516#comment-1753579 Ionscan 400B Airport substances detector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L3GFmukGqc

Barringer/Smiths Detection ion mobility spectrometer for finding naughty things on air passengers.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/06/09/us-airport-screeners-missed-95-of-weapons-explosives-in-undercover-tests-ars-technica/comment-page-1/#comment-1404469 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 15:55:57 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=32516#comment-1404469 TSA Fails To Find Links To Terrorism of Airport Workers
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/06/08/2145219/tsa-fails-to-find-links-to-terrorism-of-airport-workers

An audit of the TSA has found that the agency failed to uncover the terrorist connections of 73 aviation workers when it did background checks of them. According to a report released Monday, the people were employed by major airlines, airport vendors and other employers, and were not identified because the agency lacked access to terrorism-related information from within the government.

TSA Fails to ID 73 Airport Employees With Links to Terrorism
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tsa-fails-identify-73-employees-terror-watch-lists-n371601

A new Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report found that the Transportation Security Administration failed to identify 73 aviation employees with active clearance badges with links to terrorism.

The agency’s “multi-layered process to vet aviation workers for potential links to terrorism was generally effective.”

“However, our testing showed that TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy.”

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