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Picture this: you're standing at the baggage carousel watching hundreds of identical black suitcases slowly pass you by — most of them adorned with small locks clipped to their zippers. Heck, you ...

For years, the US TSA (that's the Transportation Security Agency, a division of Homeland Security) has recommended that travelers in the United States buy and equip their luggage with a TSA-approved ...

The TSA has long dictated certain "blessed" locks that only it could pick. You know, in case they need or want to open your baggage. For national security, of course. The TSA is able to accomplish ...

The TSA is learning a basic lesson of physical security in the age of 3-D printing: If you have sensitive keys—say, a set of master keys that can open locks you've asked millions of Americans to ...

In spite of the many security policies it enforces, the TSA isn't really on top of its game when it comes to guarding its own secrets. Not long ago, a publication ran a story on TSA security measures ...

On Saturday evening, during the Eleventh HOPE conference in New York City, three hackers released the final master key used by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which opens Safe Skies ...

Over the weekend, Salted Hash broke the news that hackers had released the eighth and final TSA master key, which opens locks created by Safe Skies LLC. Today we’ll discuss a key takeaway point from ...