31/12/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : Homeland Security News Reader This week’s iPhone App of the Week was a last minute substitution give the events of this past week here on Flying With Fish. iPhone Apps come in all sorts of effective uses and this week’s iPhone App of the Week is ideal…
31/12/2009 – The Fallout From SD-1544-0906 : The Feds Take My Computer I started writing this post yesterday, but I have been writing and rewriting it all night. This post is nothing special, it is not a masterwork equal to that of Tolstoy, Twain or Shakespeare. This post also isn’t how I wanted to end…
30/12/2009 – The Fallout From SD-1544-09-06 : The Feds At My Door Yesterday evening was like most other nights, until around 6:30pm when I received a phone call from Chris Elliot. Chris is a travel journalist, who happens to be National Geographic Traveler’s Reader Advocate, writes a regular column for The Washington Post, produce a…
29/12/2008 – Flying With Contraband Items? Face Deportation Or Worse With all eyes focusing on airport security over the past few days I’d like to address an every day scenario Customs Agents around the world handle, passengers traveling with illegal items. Illegal items range from the benign Cuban Cigars entering the United States to weapons…
28/12/2009 – TSA Modifies SD-1544-09-06 & Who Will Fix The Broken System? The US Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration has quickly revised portions of its Security Directive SD-1544-09-06, which I posted it its entirety yesterday in this post: 27/12/2009 – TSA Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 : The Fallout From NW253 While the physical…
28/12/2009 – Letter of the Day : The TSA Should Be At All Airports Flying To The US This morning while reading a few dozen emails and sorting through 30+ comments regarding the events surrounding Delta Air Lines Flight 253 and the TSA implementing Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 I received an e-mail with a question that…
28/12/2009 – Dear Secretary Napolitano Can You Tell Me How The System Worked? In the wake of the Christmas Day terrorist attempted on Delta Air Lines Flight 253 (NW253), operated by Northwest Airlines by Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab I have been closely watching the statements by Secretary Janet Napolitano of the US Department of…
27/12/2009 – TSA Security Directive SD-1544-09-06 : The Fallout From NW253 Following the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on Delta Air Lines Flight 253, operated by Northwest Airlines, from Amsterdam to Detroit, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has created a series of security measures in reaction to the incident. Earlier today I wrote…
26/12/2009 – US Travel Security Changes That Do Little To Provide Any Security As of today new security procedures are in place for all international flights headed to the United States…but due these new procedures offer us any additional security? On Christmas Day 23 year old Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly set off an…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 24/06/2009 – Verified Identity Pass & Clear Vanish : Why & What Happens Now? The departure of the Registered Traveler “Clear Program” isn’t all that clear. What is clear is that on the morning of Monday June 22nd Clear sent out an easy to overlook, rather unclear, e-mail to its…
