"If you discover a vulnerable payment application and have specific information as to the payment application vendor, application version, where sensitive cardholder data is stored and vendor contact information, please notify Visa via email at cisp@visa.com."

I made more than twice that as a contractor. We got paid overtime and holidays worked with client approval, but it was straight time. When you're making $60 an hour, you don't ask too many questions about whether or not you're being treated fairly as a worker.

Nope. The song I heard included such gems as, "The worst part about it is the bitch that they can be; Just to kiss 'em they charge admission, when it used to all be free." and, "No wine, no flowers; Don't waste your cash. Because she has a bleeding gash." I think puerile sums it up nicely.

Back in my misspent youth some 20 years ago, someone gave me a song they swore was TMBG, recorded in someone's basement. The title was "On the Rag", and while the vocals bore some resemblance, the lyrics were predictably puerile. Was this really you guys, or was my friend just pulling my leg?

In a word, no.

The directive means they can't go looking for evidence of crimes that are not primary in their mission. If, during the course of their search to make sure you're not carrying contraband onto an airplane (ie, dangerous shit like knitting needles) they find prima facie evidence of a crime (your coke, a severed head, "interesting" pictures involving a horse), they'll turn you over to local law enforcement.

All this means is that they're limited to investigating air safety. Unless they stumble across something that is clearly illegal (and $4300 cash is NOT that), they cannot do anything. Even if they do find something interesting, they cannot detain you, as they are not law enforcement. Those two things are what the ACLU fought for here. Even though they're a bunch of data-profiling dickwads (and that was why I stopped my sponsorship of them), they do get it right now and then.