Projecting a front of "If you try and get onto a plane with bad intent then we'll stop you.", it doesn't matter how effective they are, or in this case how ineffective they are.

Because any time someone says "Well they haven't even got a 5% success rate and their record for stealing items from flyers is legendary and backed up by a hell of a lot of evidence, especially medication." then you get the agency saying "Well if you want to get rid of us then people will perceive planes once again as a viable attack path, do you want to put hundreds of people at risk?".

This is of course a logical fallacy and the reason why the people publishing the test findings being labelled as dangerous individuals because they poke holes in the imaginary defence that they pretend to rely on but in practise use literally anything else because the TSA is the worst run organisation since the 21st Cat Brigade.

if you go into the thread on r/conspiracy they have links to his other post where he kind of outs himself as a wanker.

Still lots of good convo about the other companies they use in the thread.

tpp is about to put your "way of life" in all kinds of fuckery, so keep not caring while you can.

I usually don't like linking to SRD but this post was proven fake. All the more reason to not blindly accept facts.

https://reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/38gol4/one_of_the_biggest_trollings_of_rconspiracy_has/

It's not the secrecy that bothers me it's the plain, utter incompetency. These fuckers are supposed to be (in part) in charge of your safety.

Even better is the bio of the first guy "with 20+ years of industry experience". There is no way that guy is old enough to have been working there 20+ years.

I'm not too knowledgable about whois and domains, but is it possible this website is some sort of joke/hoax setup by a random person on the internet? What evidence have we that this is actually associated with the company or with the NSA? The registry says it is associated with a domain that has NSA in the name, and that address has a scary text note, which might mean the NSA is legitimately involved... but maybe not? I'm wondering if it is possible that someone like the conspiratard people could pull something like this off after seeing the news article.

The twitter account has only two tweets, both from within the past 18 hours, so it doesn't appear to be an established account with a reputation of being associated with the company. Maybe it is something they or the NSA tossed up, but i don't know, it seems much more sloppy than I would expect.

Edit: Two days later, and I see this http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-man-behind-one-of-the-biggest-trollings-of-rconspiracy-ever

So it would appear that it was appropriate to be cautious.

Have you seen Citizenfour? Snowden actually talks about this fairly early on, minus the fictitious companies. I'm surprised this only made mainstream news back in February.

He mentions how people sat in front of a computer at the NSA can bring up live feeds from surveillance drones all over the country that are just watching people's houses. It's unreal.

Wow, you are on so many lists right now, great work!

Thanks, I hadn't made the association.

What's the backstory? What did/does this company do and why do they matter?

Awesome fucking post.

I don't know which is more disturbing. Is it the cover up itself? The obviousness and amateurishness of it? Or the sheer incompetence. Or is it so obvious so they can better hide even more nefarious shit.

When I was a carpenter we would leave obvious easy to fix fuckups so the inspectors would find them and think they were done and not search for hard to fix minor fuckups. This looks to be that caliber of deception.