The government has warned airlines that terrorists are considering surgically implanting explosives into people in an attempt to circumvent screening procedures, according to U.S. officials.

"Measures may include interaction with passengers, in addition to the use of other screening methods such as pat-downs and the use of enhanced tools and technologies."

It wasn't until after Virgin America Flight 415 took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday that the airline discovered the man, identified as Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, wasn't supposed to be on the flight, according to an FBI affidavit.

However, the incident has raised questions about airline security and how someone could get through security and board a plane without a valid ticket and proper documentation.

In an updated statement Thursday, the agency said its "initial review of this matter indicates the officer reviewing the passenger's travel documents did not identify that the passenger was traveling with improper travel documents."

What's interesting is that several tech companies, at least according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, are ranked below Bank of America, which is actually listed last among the 19 companies with a satisfaction rating of 68 out of 100.

Right there at No. 10, among immensely unpopular utility companies, airlines and cable providers, is social networking giant Facebook.

If Facebook's customer satisfaction rating drops, it could be an indication that Facebook may be peaking.

We've discussed many times just how easy it is to get around the NY Times' paywall. I've never run up against it because I don't have javascript enabled, and the whole system is javascript based.

Of course, now that the paywalls been out for a while, people are finding even more ways to get around the paywall, including merely removing the string at the end of the URL.

I'm wondering if just this video alone violates the DMCA's anti-circumvention clause.

The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.

"My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia," Weber said. "She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel."

More recently, outrage erupted over a video-recorded pat-down of a 6-year-old passenger last April at New Orleans' airport.

Last week, Gawker wrote a story about Silk Road, the online drug marketplace that users can only access via TOR and where the only currency accepted is Bitcoin.

enator Chuck Schumer, who can grandstand with the best of them, apparently got handed that article and saw an opportunity to publicly demand that something must be done about Silk Road.

You know what else is a form of currency that is used to disguise the source of money? Cash. And, last I checked, it's still legal tender. Blaming the semi-anonymous nature of Bitcoin is severely misplaced.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin confirmed last night that the network problems it has been contending with during the last several days are the result of a "significant and tenacious attack" carried out against its network.

Going after the systems used by defense contractors to steal jet designs is one thing. Attacking systems like the power grid--deemed by the government to be "critical infrastructure," is quite another. It's the fear that these systems could come under attack just as readily as any other that keeps the government funding numerous cybersecurity efforts.

Amazon announced today it is expanding its trade-in program to allow customers to swap their used electronics for Amazon gift cards.

After Amazon receives and inspects the items, the gift cards are deposited in the customer's Amazon account, usually within 48 hours, Amazon said. Rejected items are returned to the customer within 14 days at no cost.

Just two days after the PlayStation Network was restored after a near month-long outage, the PSN password page has apparently been exploited. According to reports, the exploit allows other users to reset your account password using only your e-mail address and date of birth. This personal data was made available to hackers during the initial PSN attack.

"We temporarily took down the PSN and Qriocity password reset page. Contrary to some reports, there was no hack involved. In the process of resetting of passwords there was a URL exploit that we have subsequently fixed."

The CPCC collects "levies" on blank CDs and has desperately tried but failed twice in the Courts and recently with the Government and the Bill C-32 Committee to get an "iPod" tax.

It has now resurrected its efforts for a "levy" - or a "tax" as Ministers call it - on memory cards, such as Compact Flash.

At the time in 2003, the CPCC wanted "0.8c for each megabyte of memory in each removable electronic memory card, each removable flash memory storage medium of any type, or each removable micro-hard drive". On today's typical 16 GB card that sells for about $30 or less, that would be a "tax" of $128 - or about 400%.