TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers

wwphx writes "In the wake of public outcry against the Transportation Security Administration for serving civil subpoenas on two bloggers, the government agency has canceled the legal action and apologized for the strong-arm tactics agents used."

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Pity

[Anonymous Coward]

Since their new guideline was published everyone is going to know about these changes in security. If only these bloggers would have kept quiet, the only ones who would know would be the millions who go through the airports. Someone has to pay for a lapse in secrecy of this magnitude!

His returned laptop now glows red in audio jack?!?

[noidentity]

Drennan also promised to make sure the administration resolved issues that Frischling has been having with his laptop ever since the agents seized it to image the hard drive.

Frischling says the laptop was returned to him with "tons and tons of bad sectors" and a corrupt operating system. The audio on his computer has also stopped working, and a red light glows from the audio jack.

Damn, I bet his machine is full of spying devices, including one where the audio card used to be.

Re:21st Century Socia media buptkiss whoopin'

[ae1294]

, it spreads faster and farther than ever before

Except on /. where it still takes 4 weeks to a year...