airport security in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heathrow's iris scan failure
Comment For nearly a year I have considered joining the iris-scanning security trial at Heathrow Airport. What a shame - for want of a few extra pounds a really good technology solution to airport security has been degraded to a joke. [18 Apr 2007]
India diary, day 5: Margaritas to Mumbai
Comment On the way from the airport to the hotel the taxi passes miles of grey slums, single story buildings with corrugated roofs. Last year all the talk was about how to head off security worries around personal data being stolen by call centre staff. [08 Mar 2007]
Leader: Biometrics - good or bad?
Leader Airport security, for instance, is shaping up to be one area where biometrics are welcomed. This should be no real surprise for anyone who's been through airport security in the past five years. Our globetrotting blogger Peter Cochrane has long... [07 Feb 2007]
Leader: We ALL want to use biometrics
Leader Take the fulsome praise you will hear for the iris recognition offered as an option to regular travellers through London's Heathrow airport. Take the story about biometrics being used for door security at pubs in Yeovil. [31 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up And speaking of security there are plans afoot to improve airport security with some nifty technology - implanting RFID chips into the brains of all airline passengers. OK, the tracking tags won't actually be implanted into the brain, or any part... [20 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations
Comment Written at Copenhagen Airport after a delightfully easy check-in and relaxed period in the airport lounge. A 45 minute wait on the approach road getting to the airport terminal, followed by a 20 minute wait to get to the front of the line at... [25 Sep 2006]
Leader: Who cares about their laptop?
Leader Last week we revealed the surprisingly high number of laptops that go unclaimed at airport lost property offices. And furthermore, it's probably safe and sad to assume that not all these laptops end up in the hands of airport lost property, given... [05 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Flight frustrations
Comment Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from Stansted Airport amid a sea of confused and tired humanity via a commercial wi-fi service These can be identified with ease and afforded extra attention from the point they book a ticket... [22 Aug 2006]
30 tips for better business travel
Comment I usually carry a variety of metal things in my jacket pockets - pens, keys, coins, phone, memory stick, spectacles/cases, calculator (in wallet), business card case, etc - and I have found that, when going through airport security, it is easier... [19 Jun 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security and 'toilet paper'
Comment A few days later, at an international airport I had a repeat experience with a document left in the lounge area. We hear an awful lot about electronic security and the lengths to which companies and governments go to secure their email and data. [28 Apr 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Remember when flying was fun?
Comment Written in Washington Dulles Airport after a heavy day, polished on the M5 between Reading and Taunton some weeks later, and dispatched from a domestic wi-fi link in Colyton, Devon As a regular international commuter across numerous countries I... [27 Mar 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and flight security
Comment The flight from Amsterdam to London Stansted is only 30 minutes long; there are signs and announcements enough to warn people about smoking all over the airport and the aircraft. The security check-in never asked for the declaration, or looked for... [01 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Biometrics offer false hope
Comment They make some sense in situations such as an airport, where it is necessary to be certain that a person matches their documents, such as their passport, and that the documents are genuine. So perhaps the latest moves are in the same vein: designed... [03 May 2005]
Leader: Return of the lost laptops
Leader But the research suggested this was down to the good old-fashioned honesty of cab drivers and warned you might not be as lucky if you left your gadgets at an airport. To test the claim, silicon.com called up London's Heathrow Airport. [24 Jan 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile folly
Comment It is an early Monday morning and I am in the lounge at the North Terminal London Gatwick Airport. Companies are spending a fortune on computer security whilst neglecting the biggest hole in the bucket - the fallibility and stupidity of their people. [04 Nov 2004]
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