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."

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:Type of laptop in picture

[wiredlogic]

Maybe they didn't know how to image it because it wasn't Windows?

Which unequivocally proves that he's a terrorist. If he didn't have anything to hide he wouldn't have gone to such lengths to prevent investigators from performing their sworn duty.

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...

Re:"Whoops, sorry"

[sunilhari]

Cue (entirely appropriate) lawsuit in 3...2...1...

Re:21st Century Socia media buptkiss whoopin'

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but to make up for that, Slashdot posts it more than once.

Re:"Whoops, sorry" - this is AFTER..

[Vexar]

Is it me, or does the "Federal Agent" badge look really tarnished now, from the technology vantage? I mean, who out there *can't* image a hard drive? I'll bet they broke it because they weren't grounded. Besides, opening a laptop these days, that's a difficult task. Need more than a few certifications, I say. Last time mine was professionally serviced, it needed a motherboard replacement after it was fixed. So, I wonder if the federal agents just took the laptop to the Geek Squad and asked them to do it for them?