He was just doing his job as a so-called white-hat hacker for AirTight Networks, a manufacturer of wireless intrusion protection hardware and software that was invented in India and brought to market in the U.S. AirTight's chief executive, David King, sends hackers out for unsolicited security assessments.

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But those rules still offer a few important rights to fliers, as outlined in this helpful PDF created by a "white-hat" hacker, graduate student and security researcher who goes by the name "Sai" and has made a serious vocation of digging into TSA minutiae.

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Teso isn't the first so-called "white hat" hacker to expose what appear to be holes in air-traffic security.

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