Originally Posted by bocastephen
This is an anonymous Internet message board - unless you've identified yourself in some way to link your screen name to your real identity, you have nothing to fear about posting the details here.
Yeah, already out on that count~ I work at HSV, I work as a TSO, and my name is Dean. Really narrows it down, there :P One time, when The Training Dude here in HSV went to DC on some kind of training trip, he got asked about me once the person he was talking to learned he was from Huntsville. Mostly it was a "So is HSVTSO Dean real?"
Another time, I was working the checkpoint and a person asked me if I was the same Dean from 'the internet.' I told him I was, and we chit-chatted for a second (couldn't spend too long, since we were busy at the time), but he said he saw my name on FT. I didn't ask him who he was, though; it was just neat that someone mentioned it.
Yeah, no, I'd say I'm fairly straightforward about my identity.
If you or another TSA person wants to get the specifics out (we'll find out eventually anyway), PM me and I will gladly post any real or alleged SSI under my own screen name.
That's awfully kind of you, sir, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline your offer. As much as I feel the keen sense of duty to help try to raise awareness and understanding between the public and the TSA - both ways - I also have a duty to protect the sensitive information entrusted to me. I won't be a sieve.
I'll just have to make the best I can do.
Don't worry, though, I'm not going to just let it go. Give me a few days; I'm going to talk to the SSI liaison officer here in HSV, see if the information is protected (it might be, and it might very well not be; like I said before, I don't
really know off the top of my head).
If it isn't, I'll be back here to let you and everyone else know.