Google Espionage: Same Egg’s in a New Basket

Submitted by kakroo on Sat, 2010-02-06 18:49.

The recent incident at Google shook the entire world, but was it merely a one-off incident or a wake-up call? Did the event gather importance just because Google threatened to pull out of China or stop the so called censorship or was there something more sinister? I tried to explore a little.

Airport evacuated!! Found handgrenade in luggage!

Submitted by Kai on Mon, 2008-05-05 09:26.

Just a few hours ago, the Tromsø airport in Norway was evacuated due to a hand grenade found in the luggage (Norwegian link).

The hand grenade was found in the hand luggage of a passenger moving through security. I can only imagine the eyes of the security clerk who discovered it.

Eyes Wide Open comes to mind. Certainly, the Big Red Button was very close indeed.

ALARM!

The hole airport was evacuated, secured and shut down.

Only to be reopened 25 minutes later, when the Grenade was discovered to be a belt buckle!

I got a feeling that the security clerk would wish to move forward and dismiss this event as an error. I for one will go on and order a couple of belts. Imagine the disorder to be created if these buckles keeps trying to enter the airports around the world!

Obviously, when it becomes customary to wear and carry grenade look-a-likes as belt buckles, it will be much easier to bring actual grenades hidden as a buckle. So, sometimes soon, I predict the politicians to enforce a

"No Grenade look-a-like Belt Buckles allowed on Airports!"

 

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Edit: Just read about the complete opposite experience at the Digital Soapbox! Thanks, Rafal! 

Sam, this is incredible. I

Submitted by Kai on Tue, 2008-05-06 18:22.
Sam, this is incredible. I just do not understand how the so-called security at airports can survive. I do not know of many people (even outside of security related networks) that believe the airports are any more secure now than before.

Add to shopping list:


    • grenade looking belt buckle

    • bag smelling gun powder

    • bullet proof west (to survive the attempt to enter the airport)

Kai - I was watching a tv

Submitted by Sam Van Ryder (not verified) on Tue, 2008-05-06 18:06.
Kai - I was watching a tv show here called "America's Port" and they showed how they shut down the entire port of L.A. - costing the economy potentially millions of dollars - because of a suspicious bag that turned out to have a piece of coral in it (cruise ship passenger). All because a dog sniffed residue gunpowder on the bag, which was used for gun practice when not being used for holiday travel. :-O

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