The Transportation Security Administration spent $1.4 million to randomly select passengers who don't have to wait in long TSA lines. At the very least, New York Magazine reported the agency spent ...

The United States government paid tens of thousands of dollars to IBM to create software so simple, it could have been created by nearly any beginning-level app developer. Documents obtained through ...

Correction: TSA says the “total development costs” of the app were $47,400, not $336,413.59. They also confirmed that the app was part of a larger contract with IBM. See more below. If you’ve flown ...

If you've flown across the country at any point in the past couple of years, you've probably come into contact with the Transportation Security Administration's Randomizer app on the iPad. It's an ...

The TSA Randomizer iPad app has two jobs: 1) point left or right, and 2) do it randomly. It’s an app a novice coder would write. And it cost the TSA $1.4 million. In the video below Android developer ...

"How much does the TSA pay for an app that a beginner could build in a day?" technologist Kevin Burke asked in a recent blog post. $1.4 million, it turns out. The app in question is the Transportation ...

If you’ve flown across the country at any point in the past couple of years, you’ve probably come into contact with the Transportation Security Administration’s Randomizer app on the iPad. It’s an ...

Sometimes, if luck is on your side, you can get a free trip through the quick and painless lane of airport security. At around 100 airports, TSA agents armed with iPads ease congestion by randomly ...