Online

The Weirdest Tweets And Facebook Posts That Could Get You In Trouble

Animal has discovered the list of words that the US Department of Homeland Security specifically target when they monitor tweets and Facebook posts and it’s, um, comprehensive. Ever tweet about the weather? Or used ‘closure’, ‘cloud’, ‘home grown’, ‘bart’, ‘subway’ or hell even ‘social media’ in your posts? YOU’RE ATTRACTING ATTENTION FROM THE DHS!!


July 8, 2011
News

TSA Agent Caught Stuffing Stolen iPad Down His Pants

Gizmodo AU

You’ve got to give points for efficiency. Detectives say the 30 year old luggage screener would use his phone to sell stolen cameras and laptops online — often by the end of his shift.


June 27, 2011
News

TSA Agents Now Making Elderly Women Remove Their Adult Diapers

Taking disabled people’s toys, exposing women’s breasts, making women remove their prosthetic breasts: seems TSA agents never stop figuring out new ways to be sadistic. Now comes word that some agents made a wheelchair-bound, 95-year-old woman with final-stage leukemia take off her adult diaper for pat-down purposes.


November 23, 2010
Computing

Exclusive: TSA Says Body Scanners Saving Images ‘Impossible’

Can the body scanners used by the TSA save images? It seems unreasonable to geeks that a computer cannot save any images at all – ever. But according to a statement made to Gizmodo by the TSA, that’s the case.


June 9, 2010
Cameras

DHS Testing 360-Degree Video Camera

You might think the British have it bad, being caught on CCTV camera up to 300 times a day each – but this new 360-degree video camera is being tested by the US Department of Homeland Security right now.