gHacks technology news » terrorism http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 No you cannot board the flight with THAT http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/31/no-you-cannot-board-the-flight-with-that/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/31/no-you-cannot-board-the-flight-with-that/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 06:53:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4533 Reports are increasing in the last days where passengers had to give in to the demands of the boarding personal before they were allowed to board a flight. The first incident happened at Kelowna Airport in British Columbia, Canada. Marnina Norys, a Toronto resident, was asked to remove her necklace with a pendant of a miniature Colt 45 gun.

The pendant had no moving parts but she still had to race back to the check in to check in her carrying bag with the necklace because here luggage had long been gone. I like the question that one of the security guards was asking after the incident: “How do you know it wasn’t a real gun?” Classic, ain’t it ?

Now who would have thought that this incident could be topped so soon ? Brad Jayakody booked a flight with British Airways from Heathrow to Dusseldorf, Germany. He is wearing a showing Optimus Prime carrying a gun. Apparently passengers with shirts that depict guns cannot board flights anymore and he was asked to change his shirt to be able to board the flight. He was also reminded that he would be arrested if he would change the shirt again.

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So what’s next. Asking someone with a gun tattoo to remove it before boarding the plane ?

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/31/no-you-cannot-board-the-flight-with-that/feed/ 4 Those who would give up essential Liberty.. http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/20/those-who-would-give-up-essential-liberty/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/20/those-who-would-give-up-essential-liberty/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 07:38:35 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4202 to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. This quote by one of the founding fathers of the United States dates back more than 200 years ago but it has a huge relevance to the current situation in our world. The so called democratic countries of the West are reducing the rights of their population in every legislation by tracking and spying on them, storing information about them and controlling them all for the sake of fighting terrorism.

Data Retention Laws (firmly pushed by the United Kingdom) are already in place which forces every European ISP to record communication data of their users. Apparently though that is not enough for the British Home Office who have plans to create a database of electronic information holding details of every phone call and e-mail sent in the UK according to the BBC.

All for the sake of national security, fighting terrorism and crime of course. The data will be “subject to strict safeguards to ensure the right balance between privacy and protecting the public.”

Am I the only one thinking all those laws that reduce the liberty of the individual and the population are way out of proportion ? There is zero difference between some laws in Europe and the United States and some oppressive regime in the rest of the world.

I’m sorry that it got a bit political but this is an issue that is affecting everyone living in those countries.

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