Airport Screeners To Keep Hands Off Chests; Report Warns of Dangers of LNG Attack; Stolen Laptop Puts Personal Information of Blood Donors at Risk

Airport Screeners To Keep Hands Off Chests

The Boston Globe reports that from now on, the Federal Transportation Security Administration is telling its screeners to keep their hands to the “chest perimeters” of women unless handheld metal detectors beep when waved over their breasts. According to the Globe, the change in procedure is the consequence, in part, of complaints by women passengers about searches of their chests.

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A report by the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico said terrorists could use rocket-propelled grenades, missiles, planes or boats to break open tankers carrying liquefied natural gas into a U.S. port, according to a story in the Washington Post. The Post reports that study warned that the “most significant impacts on public safety and property” from an attack would be for those within 1,640 feet and that “lower impacts” would be felt at distances beyond 5,249 feet.

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Stolen Laptop Puts Personal Information of Blood Donors at RiskInfoworld.

Infoworld reports that a notebook PC containing the personal information of thousands of blood donors was stolen from a blood bank in California last Friday, exposing those donors to the possibility of identify theft. According to the report, the stolen laptop contained the personal information of “tens of thousands” of donors.

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