[Infowarrior] - TSA Agents Outwitted By Cory Doctorow's Unlocked, 'TSA-Safe' Suitcase

[Richard Forno]

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150414/10471430654/tsa-agents-outwitted-cory-doctorows-unlocked-tsa-safe-suitcase.shtml

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The TSA will never have to pay for broken luggage. Because terrorism. 

I miss the good old days when this sort of behavior was only displayed by baggage handlers searching for valuables/setting distance records in amateur luggage-tossing competitions. At least then you could find someone to hold accountable for the damage sustained. 

The TSA, however, is above even the most minimal level of accountability. If its employees are outsmarted by a "TSA-safe" lock, it's your fault for not ensuring your checked luggage was already open and dumping its contents all over the conveyor belts by the time it reached the TSA's elite group of suitcase-battering counterterrorists. This entire situation (especially the TSA's "response") cleary shows that Doctorow is the guilty party here. If he truly loved America, he'd have prepared for this eventuality… or at least just taken back the taped-together remains of his $1000 suitcase and shed a tear of gratitude for all the hard work the TSA did to ensure his flight didn't get blown up/hijacked.

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