San Francisco is getting to be a pain to fly in and out of, which, sadly, I'll be doing within the week. At the end of January, the local TSA authorities started asking fliers to remove each individual gadget or piece of electronics they happened to be carrying. After some of the major blogs picked the story up, the TSA investigated and then issued an apology (sort of, while still managing to be both head-patting and self-congralatory) on its own blog yesterday.
Today the Washington Post reports that things are even worse: "A few months earlier in the same airport, a tech engineer returning from a business trip to London objected when a federal agent asked him to type his password into his laptop computer. "This laptop doesn't belong to me," he remembers protesting. "It belongs to my company." Eventually, he agreed to log on and stood by as the officer copied the Web sites he had visited, said the engineer, a U.S. citizen who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of calling attention to himself."
Other passengers have had their laptops seized and unreturned.
Shhhhhh. They're watching us right now. That's right. Them. 
