Comments on: Evolution of Security: Apple MacBook Airs are Cleared for Takeoff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: vinnie mirchandani http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/comment-page-1/#comment-241127 vinnie mirchandani Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:04:29 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/#comment-241127 Jeff, scary ...so TSA can bark at you and me but does not have jurisdiction over our airports? Here is what bothers me...I would gladly pay twice the $ 2.50 fee on each segment if they introduced more technology and a higher, more serious caliber of employee...some of the incidents I can report "First time in the US?" as one of them looks at my US passport "you have an issue go complain to the asshole in washington and see how far you get " Kid you not he used those words - a Federal employee someone threatened to consficate a 100ml perfume I had bought for wife in London..I had to show him that was 3.4 oz to which he said that's over the 3 oz limit, and we had to go find regs which showed TSA has upped the limit to become consistent with Europe. No one had trained him on the change. the average person/bag is scrutinized for may be 10 seconds...I would love to see that increased It's the 4-5 hangers on for each person screening the bags or frisking a passenger which I would love to see reduced or automated Jeff, scary …so TSA can bark at you and me but does not have jurisdiction over our airports?

Here is what bothers me…I would gladly pay twice the $ 2.50 fee on each segment if they introduced more technology and a higher, more serious caliber of employee…some of the incidents I can report

“First time in the US?” as one of them looks at my US passport

“you have an issue go complain to the asshole in washington and see how far you get ” Kid you not he used those words – a Federal employee

someone threatened to consficate a 100ml perfume I had bought for wife in London..I had to show him that was 3.4 oz to which he said that’s over the 3 oz limit, and we had to go find regs which showed TSA has upped the limit to become consistent with Europe. No one had trained him on the change.

the average person/bag is scrutinized for may be 10 seconds…I would love to see that increased
It’s the 4-5 hangers on for each person screening the bags or frisking a passenger which I would love to see reduced or automated

]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/comment-page-1/#comment-241054 Jeff Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:14:05 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/#comment-241054 no shit. no shit.

]]> By: justsaying http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/comment-page-1/#comment-240967 justsaying Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:59:04 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/#comment-240967 "their" and "there" are two different words with two different meanings. “their” and “there” are two different words with two different meanings.

]]> By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/comment-page-1/#comment-240784 Jeff Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:00:36 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/#comment-240784 Vinnie, To play devil's advocate for just a second (cuz we do that well with each other!), airports are locally owned and operated. It's unclear to me how TSA operates their security checkpoints, but if they are responsible for the personnel and the airport authority for the physical infrastructure, well it's overstepping of federal authority to force regional airports to roll out Clear if TSA is not willing to pay for it. Okay, devil's advocate hat off, Clear has been telling airports that they, as in Clear, will fund the rollout of Clear checkpoints so local airports have few excuses. Lastly, when I was in Miami a couple of weeks ago I asked a TSA agent if they had Clear, he said (and I'm not bullshitting) "you must be kidding, the politicians in this town are too busy stealing money rather than spending it to make things better." Vinnie,
To play devil’s advocate for just a second (cuz we do that well with each other!), airports are locally owned and operated. It’s unclear to me how TSA operates their security checkpoints, but if they are responsible for the personnel and the airport authority for the physical infrastructure, well it’s overstepping of federal authority to force regional airports to roll out Clear if TSA is not willing to pay for it.

Okay, devil’s advocate hat off, Clear has been telling airports that they, as in Clear, will fund the rollout of Clear checkpoints so local airports have few excuses.

Lastly, when I was in Miami a couple of weeks ago I asked a TSA agent if they had Clear, he said (and I’m not bullshitting) “you must be kidding, the politicians in this town are too busy stealing money rather than spending it to make things better.”

]]> By: vinnie mirchandani http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/comment-page-1/#comment-240715 vinnie mirchandani Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:30:35 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/#comment-240715 Guilty - but precisely because I don't see what you see in Bay area. The Clear technology rollout has been slow around the country - less than 20 airports after 4 years and there some with only certain terminals and hours - so it's still plenty of manual, human steps. Major airports like ATL, OHare, Miami, Tampa, DFW, Houston, Phoenix dont have it. The best TSA can do when you ask them when it is coming to a certain airport "is we encourage you to pressure your local airport." This is a federal agency with all kinds of authority and they want individual passengers to lobby local airports? Guilty – but precisely because I don’t see what you see in Bay area. The Clear technology rollout has been slow around the country – less than 20 airports after 4 years and there some with only certain terminals and hours – so it’s still plenty of manual, human steps. Major airports like ATL, OHare, Miami, Tampa, DFW, Houston, Phoenix dont have it. The best TSA can do when you ask them when it is coming to a certain airport “is we encourage you to pressure your local airport.”

This is a federal agency with all kinds of authority and they want individual passengers to lobby local airports?

]]> By: Paul Freet http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/comment-page-1/#comment-240679 Paul Freet Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:07:00 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/03/13/evolution-of-security-apple-macbook-airs-are-cleared-for-takeoff/#comment-240679 Thank you Jeff. You are a voice of reason amongst the daily crap that is most tech blogs. :-) Thank you Jeff. You are a voice of reason amongst the daily crap that is most tech blogs. :-)

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