Think the Transportation Security Administration is the only one doing the confiscating at airports?
Here’s an interesting story out of an obscure Micronesian newspaper called the Marianas Variety. The managers of the Guam International Airport Authority have gone ahead and seized an undisclosed number of computers operated by the airport’s police division today, which answers to the TSA (Guam is, after all, a U.S. territory).
TSA officials are miffed. Those computers contain a lot of sensitive security information, and no one alerted them of the raid.
“It was not made clear to TSA who initiated the investigation or the scope,” the administration’s Daniel P. Astorga wrote in a terse-sounding letter to Jess Torres, the general manager of the airport authority. The letter was leaked to the Variety. “At the moment, TSA is unsure of the nature of the investigation and what, if any, does protected government information have to do with this investigation.”
Unfortunately, little in the Variety’s report clears up the confusion. All that seems clear is that the computers were work stations belonging to several police officers, who aren’t too happy. Maybe they were looking at too much porn?
The article doesn’t say. What it piece does give are a lot of abbreviations: TSA, GIAA, CPU, SSI, ASP. It’s like scrabble for illiterates.
What does this mean for you, dear consumer? Probably little, except perhaps a bit of satisfaction picturing some from the TSA looking a little bewildered as they watch their computers hauled off for scrutiny.
Question: Where do they get to file a complaint?