The TSA spent $336,000 on an iPad app that decides what line you go in at security
Apr04
If you’ve traveled through the US recently, you might have seen a TSA officer at a security checkpoint holding an iPad and directing people to different lines. That’s the TSA’s “randomizer” app that’s reportedly used at 100 airports to randomly sort which line you end up in, so it’s a non-discriminatory process and so that it’s harder for terrorists to detect any patterns. One curious developer, Kevin Burke, who works at Shyp, submitted a FOIA request to find out how much that app cost. He finally got a response this month, more than a year after submitting it in December…
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