6 months in solitary? I thought it was identifying him as a terrorist removing his rights as an American and ship him down to Cuba.

They don?t call it the department of homeland stupidity for nothing.

Put simply, there’s no place that I can ever see a need to go to that would ever justify my going through the gigantic insult to human dignity that air travel in the US has become.

and all of their stupid and useless scans and patdowns are totally devoid of value and meaning.

I have simply stopped flying entirely, and while it limits my range, I have a peace of mind and sense of security that they will never, ever provide

That is sort of funny and very sad at the same time, so you hate security at airports, you state that its ineffective, and bad.

Then you claim you will never fly again, (that will get them!!)).

So what effect has it had of you personally, your freedoms, your ability to travel.

So you are willing to severly restrict your lifestype, and rights, and your freedoms.. In a silent protect about the TSA. The group you complain are too intruesive, and at the same time, not effective.

They must be effective you wont even fly without carrying a bomb..

So what would you think now days, if you had to fly and take a bomb with you ?

So by your own admission the system is working very well.

Its stopped you flying and you are not doing anything wrong, because the searches are too much for you.

So if you were trying to carry a bomb, then you would be even more scared.

So saying they are ineffective, and at the same time, saying the effect of you is that you have stopped flying alltogether.

Not because of terrorist attacks, or the risk of them,, but because you do not like the people who are trying to stop those attacks from occuring.

Seems you are somewhat confused…

What is sounds like is that you are just rattling off opinions are statements that you really do not yourself understand, trying to string them together, to form something coherent.. But it did not work out.

its clear you do not really understand the statement you make, nor can you see the contradiction between them..

So if this guy worked at a bank as a security officer, and he recorded the manager opening the safe, and showing the safes conbination, what that be whisstle blowing, or would it be a criminal act..

Its a criminal act, he job is to maintain security, and report security issues to his bosses.

He did not carry out his job, a job of great responsibility.

So he should be fired, and imprisioned.

Think about what you are saying, read it to yourself, and see if it makes any sense..

for example..

Anyone who actually believes that the TSA prevents terror attacks should be in long-term care for delusional behavior. They have not, and never will stop a determined terror attack, and all of their stupid and useless scans and patdowns are totally devoid of value and meaning

And your classic is this:
Even though you hate the searches patdowns, and x rays, and as you are saying that is **TOO MUCH** you then come out with this classic line !!! 🙂

One day, horribly enough, their total inadequacy will become all to painfully apparent to the nation, but unfortunately it will once again be too little, too late...

Do you see how you are somewhat confused ?.

Which is it, too much, or too little too late ?.

I wonder who the fool is here.. ???

so these stupid and useless scanns and patdown are totally doviod of value and meaning.. yes that is true, they are not supposed to be of value or meaning, they are intended to try to find people who are taking object’s onto aircraft that are illegal.

If you like, the ‘value’ is **IF** they find a bomb, the value is the saving of lives and assets.

The “meaning”, what do you think to meaning of trying to find people taking illegal things onboard aircraft is ?

You do not understand what that “means” ??? really !!!!!

So you complain loudly about they they are doing too much, and being too strict.

then you make this statement !!!!

Got a hack for a Radio Shack TRS-80 Level II ?

What about a hack for a 2650, running mickbug, or pipbug ?
What about a hack for a VMS operating system on a mainframe.

Do you have a hack for a DECnet system ?
What about for the Symax PLC protocol ?
what about for the DNP PLC protocol ? (hardly obscure).

What hacks do you have for the AmegaOS ?

Encryption is a very very affective form of security by Obscurity, and it DOES work, and is used everywhere.

If you do not think security by obcurity does not work, that simply means you do not understand the term, or understand what security is! one or the other.. either way its a lack of understanding on your part.

Everyone knows, that the ground crew can move around within the secure area without being checked everytime they go onto the apron.

It would be stupid to do otherwise, once they are checked into that secure area, they are no longer subject to checks.

And there is high security for ground crew, and luggage staff, they are security background checked, they have a low level security clearance, and they are vetted and checked daily..

Just like the pilot, once he goes through checking, and boards the plane, which is a secure area, there is no requirement for him to be searched again..

Just like the ground crew,

there has been issues in the past there ground crews have been found guilty of smuggling items, or drugs, and as a result security has been increased. It’s an identified problem..

But filming people working at the airport apron is **NOT** whistleblowing.. as its common knowledge.

Its also stupid to expect every time groundcrew move from one place in a secure area to another place in that secure area, that they need to be rechecked !!..

Stupid is a harsh word, but what would you call it ?

You just cannot ‘whistleblow’ on something that was a big public issue, and a very high profile news and media item and it was over 5 years ago !!!..

The only thing he has done is show the world is own stupidity, and lack of understanding of security, no wonder they fired him and took his gun away..

Its not the right line of work for someone like that.

Perfect, you dont want to know the facts, as it might interfere with your opinions.

BLaneville might or might not have an understanding of the internet, but so what ??

He was not talking about the internet, and unlike you he does not think an understanding of the internet has anything at all to do with what he was saying.

What he was saying is correct, not only in America, but world wide, there are building, places, area’s where it is ILLEGAL to photograph, or video..

We have TV add’s here in Australia, that explain the laws and rules of countries in this regard.

For example, one is a add, that show’s three scenes, a couple kissing, a busker playing a guitar and singing and a couple getting their photo taken in front of a Government building.

They ask, which one of these is an illegal act and could result in your being imprisoned ?

can you guess ?

Thats right, it was the young couple getting their photo taken infront of a government building.

Its a travel warning add, and it explains that in other countries, (and our’s) there are places where you cannot photograph or film.. without at least gaining specific permission..

And if you are not aware of that, then it may be a good thing you have decided never to fly again.

You may not do so well in another country.. or even your own.

the Australian parliment his broadcast on the tv and radio nation wide, and live, that if you are are visitor to parliment house, you are forbidden from taking anyone kind of camera, or recording device with you..

ive had to work at places where they would not even grant you access to the place if you carried a pen and paper with you..

you had to only take what you were waring, in and out of the place.

if you turned up with a camera, you would be told to leave.. after handing in the camera..

1. Repeated attempts were made through official channels to have this problem resolved, nothing was done…

2. Video of sensitive material is taken every day, there are more than 3 billion cell phones in this world and many of them have cameras, the fact that he posted on you tube tell me that he is definitely NOT working for a foreign power or terrorist organization.

3. The TSA sucks at life, every week there is a new debacle. While they are strip searching grannies in the terminal, someone in coveralls and a name tag could hop the fence and load whatever the hell he wanted onto the plane.

Bottom line. This video makes the government look like idiots, because in real life that’s how they act. If the public learns how inept the people in charge of their safety really are they would get upset and demand “change” Of course no one has the faintest idea of what sort of “change” would help so they avoid it at all costs.

Who said the village only had to have one idiot?

Yes, that is why you are allowed in your town.

It would not matter for you, would it ?? you have at least ONE in your town. There are probably several, but you cant count that high,, ie 2..

But really wolfy, is that the best you can come up with ??

You’ve had a bit of time to think about it, and that is all you can give me ? kinda sucks ?

If you are going to try to insult me, you could have done a much better job.. or maybe you are what you talk off.

Maybe your total range is the ability to call people village idiots, and the other person can only call people troll. (at the same time you are both trolls).

But again, is that the best response you can come up with, I guess once you have run out of any form of logic and reasoning, you have no choice but to resort to. comments..

What would you call them ?? stupid comments, troll comments, pointless comments.

Comments that show off you’re (lack of) level of understanding. and it shows you lack depth, so if you cant think of anything intelligent to say, you will just say whatever comes into your head..

Which is usually nothing more complex than a simple, purile little whine.

And all that achieves is that it makes you look like shallow, uninformed trolls, and whiners with little to add but some stupid, and purile comment…

Get a clue people, really the likes of Wolfy needs to go back to school for awile and move out of mum’s basement..

But please do SOMETHING, to get a clue..otherwise it might be better for you just to keep you mouth shut, rather than opening it and showing everyone little depth you have.

If they feel the need to ‘hide’ so badly that the fire employees over videos – what does it say about them?

It says they have specific rules regarding photographs and video’s of what they consider sensitive area’s. Its a common practice world wide. They are not hiding anything, they are enforcing the rules. The rules that guy was employed to obey.

Many companies are Proud of how they operate and would have no issues with full disclosure to the public

Ok, Name some, name some companies that make public their day to day operational details ?

I think you will struggle to think of a single one.

Obviously; this is NOT the case with the publicly FUNDED TSA.

Just one more reason to not fly is all.

We’ll the airport is publicly funded, the airlines are publicly funded, all the shop’s at the airport, or the travel agents and booking agents are all publicly funded.

Ie, but public funds them, by paying those companies, I think what you might of been thinking about is Government funded.

That is totally different to public funded, and if you think your tax many is funding much of anything in the USA these days, then you are sadly mistaken.

You might as well say it funded from loans off China, that our children will have to pay back..

Its funded by the $30,000 plus debt that every US citizen owes to china..

Don’t you think the REAL terrorists, have people on the inside and have long since known this all?

We’ll no, the ‘real’ terrorists most probably DO NOT have people on the inside, they may not even have people at that location, so if they can download that off the internet, all the better.

Don’t you think the REAL terrorists, have people on the inside and have long since known this all?

Oh, ok, so then you might as well not do anything at all to try to protect your country.

After all, if you try to fix up one area, they are just going to attack you in another area. So by that logic you might as well open all your borders, to anyone, let anyone purchase explosives, and just sit back and wait for the end to come.

So if you cant stop ALL attacks, you might as well not bother trying to catch any.. After all it’s costing your money !!!!… great logic.. 🙂

They would want to concentrate on areas you don’t hear about on a friggin’ DAILY basis… simple logic. Too bad government has no concept of such things.

LOL,, good idea, love that logic, spend all your efforts in the area’s where the security issue is not an issue, where the terrorists DO NOT operate..

that will be SO MUCH more effective !!!

Im sure the Government understands it far better than you, and that is exactly why they are not putting all their effort into icecream stand bombers..

So instead of making flying a bit safer, they should be spending billions of dollars in deep background checks on all icecream stand vendors, employing icecream stand marshalls, x-ray scanners for the icecream, pat down’s and chemical analysis !!!..

Sorry get a grip will you !!!..

Maybe you can suggest what area’s they should be working on that you do not hear about on a daily basis ? the icecream stands ? for example… name some.

“What is sounds like is that you are just rattling off opinions are statements that you really do not yourself understand, trying to string them together, to form something coherent.. But it did not work out.”

That’s funny, cause that’s the impression I get when I read your own posts.

“Hey, Darryl. Looks like you’re off your meds again! Your furious posting pace, liberally strewn with spelling, grammar, and syntax errors makes me think that you are actually good old Scott, three sheets to the wind, or maybe off his anti-psychotic meds, or perhaps both. Congratulations! You have achieved new heights, or perhaps depths in illogic, incoherence, and idiocy!”

My thoughts exactly.

What type of food are we? I am felling kind of “peanut butter cup-ish” at the moment.

but the encryption routine and the cypher-text are not secret (in a matter of fact, they can be freely transmitted anywhere.

IF as you have said you have researched encryption systems, then you would be aware that MOST encryption systems ARE NOT FREELY TRANSMITTED EVERYWHERE..

And the specific keymat, for that encryption key is also not freely available.

It’s very hard to decrypt a signal, if you do not even know the method of encryption.

If as you claim, you have researched encryption systems, you will not about things like Token chains, and how they are variable bit lengths, certainly not freely available, in fact its the MOST secret information there IS !!!..

As you well know, if something is “traffic flow secure” that you encryption machine spits out data all the time, continuous flow of data, if you look at that data, you can not tell if the data is false, or random information for if the data is a signal, or message. and therefore you cannot tell the start or finish of that message. (that is security by obscurity at its ultimate)..

So you cannot brute force the ‘encoded’ message, because you simply cannot tell what is message, and what is random code, decrypt the entire stream, a massive amount of data, and that would be impossible..

As well as all that, the very important messages will be multiple encrypted, first by the creator of the message, on a desktop message encryption machine, he will then send that to the signal’s room, who will encrypt the allready encrypted message with a non trafic flow secure encryption, and that allready twice encrypted message, will enter the que to be fed into the main signal trunk, that is fully traffic flow secure, and the key mats chanaged VERY regularly..

Far too often for any supercomputer to work out what the keymat is before it is changed..

So again, you are simply wrong if you think it is not security by obscurity..

As for VMS, I asked you to find a hack, and you’re reply is “if it was less obscure, it would be able to work something out !!!! “.

In otherwords, yes, security by obscurity does work, and the only way you can show that it does not, it by making it NOT obscure !!!.. nice one..

You shoot down your own argument, I love it when that happens.

I bet if you had 1000 years, and a VMS system all to yourself, you would not be able to gain supervisor rights to the system through some hack.. and even if you did, you are the ruler of your own world.. VMS stands for virtual memory system.. That means you are ON YOUR OWN, when you log onto a VMS system.

And as far as you are concerned you have 100% system resources. but only what you are allowed to have.. you have 100% of your own world.. and zero of anyone elses.

But if you think you are a master hacker, I invite you to show me that you are not talking bullshit.. At least explain a little about the VMS OS, so we know you are not talking out your ass :)..

And perhaps you need to do a little bit more than read a popular science article on encryption, and call yourself an expert.. because it does not make you an expert…

Even try to explain what RED and BLACK mean in the encryption world ?

Isn’t it true that the airport and border security are going after people linked to Assange rather than going for anything close to actual… ya know… Security?