Sunday, October 28, 2007

Art.com Hacking

Art.com Inc. said that recently a hacker illegally gained access to some of its customers' names and encrypted credit-card numbers for some transactions made on its Websites from July through September. More details here.

10/28/2007 10:51:00 PM  

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Full body scan or "striptease"?

EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) calls the full-body scans a virtual striptease. However, TSA claims that 79% of the public prefer the full-body scan! For one thing, I do not know where the TSA got the stats, but it appears as though people prefer to be stripteasers than just be padded down.
 
In all seriousness, I am glad that there are security checks, but are they effective and how does it affect the general traveller in terms of privacy, reasonable comfort and all such feel-good factors?
 

10/16/2007 10:12:00 AM