And I thought 1984 was bad enough!
Now not only are the ferry’s in the Mid-Atlantic Region upping the ante on their ‘tertiary’ ‘random’ searches, errr, screenings to include popping not only the trunk but the engine compartment as well now (noted in my comment on Bruce Schneier’s blog, but….
NOW, I read this rubbish! And from a Canadian no less!?! What is the world coming to?!
Air safety proposal: shock-bracelets controlled by flight attendants (BoingBoing)
Lamperd, a “firearm training system” company, has patented a bracelet that delivers debilitating shocks when remotely triggered. Their killer app for this is aviation safety: they’re proposing that the TSA could force everyone who flies to wear one of these and then flight-attendants could zap us into a stupor if we turn out to be Al Quaeda.
BOLD emphasis mine)
What country do we live in these days?! This is not the United States of America that we all knew and loved!!?!
On a more recent posting by Bruce Schneir on Security blog, a quote by Barry Steinhardt (haven’t been a great fan of the ACLU in the past, that may be changing):
Barry Steinhardt of the ACLU comments:
I mean, when we warn about a “surveillance society,” this is what we’re talking about. This is it, this is the ballgame. Mass data from a wide variety of sources — including the private sector — is being collected and scanned by a secretive military spy agency. This represents nothing less than a major change in American life — and unless stopped the consequences of this system for everybody will grow in magnitude along with the rivers of data that are collected about each of us — and that’s more and more every day.
And “papers please” anyone?
