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By March 29, 2013

Taking care of your duty gear is as important for a security guard as a police officer or other LEO as for a soldier in the field. Most of us have some kind of uniform, and more often than not, that kit contains a pair (or several pairs) of duty boots of some kind. Some are insulated, some aren’t, some are for summer use, others are for muddy spring or fall use, and so on. Common for all of them is that they usually end up smelling like the blind end of a dog, which isn’t a good thing. Since ...

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By March 28, 2013

That title sounds a little harsh – we know that. But it serves a purpose none the less – namely using Bruce Schneier’s latest essay title for our own purposes, and we like that. The title isn’t the point, however. The point is to point out that Bruce Schneier, the cryptologist who has seen fit to call himself and present himself and take on a role that he has no qualifications for; “security expert” (or “security guru”…) has made a few more strange mistakes in his latest essay; “Our Security Models Will Never Work – No Matter What We Do”. ...

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By March 4, 2013

If you’re in the unfortunate position of following the TSA blog, you may have noticed what we’re about to talk about already – the near-complete lack of anything even remotely useful what so ever. We may have said that before, but the problem is even more prominent now. So what happened to the “dialogue”? “Blogger Bob”? The TSA blog started out pretty ambitiously in 2008, when the TSA announced that it was going to be an ongoing attempt at information sharing, dialogue and conversation about screening, technology and security. Or, as the TSA puts it; This blog is sponsored by ...

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Thumbnail image for Explosives Detection and “Alarm Resolution”? Decoding TSA-speak
By February 23, 2013

The TSA doesn’t really want you to read what’s in here. They’ve said so many times, and their SOPs even say so. Here’s what’s strange, though: all the information we’ve got here is available to anyone who’ve worked some kind of advanced security, read a couple of books on the subject and searched through some patent archives. And that’s why we’re going to tell you how the TSA’s mystical “Explosives Trace Detection” works, what it does and what they really mean when they talk about “alarm resolution”. It’s simpler than you think… TSA and SSI, K-I-S-S-I-N-G… If you’ve been unlucky ...

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By February 17, 2013

For years we’ve been hearing about the TSA and their “Layers of Security”. However, the TSA doesn’t really go into much detail about this concept, except for a 146-word article on their website. So we thought we’d give you the baseline on what it actually is. Here’s the most substantial thing the TSA has to say about it; Each one of these layers alone is capable of stopping a terrorist attack. In combination their security value is multiplied, creating a much stronger, formidable system.  A terrorist who has to overcome multiple security layers in order to carry out an attack ...

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