The poster shows a man in a hooded sweatshirt pointing a telephoto lens at something on an airport tarmac. The object of his lens is unknown since it’s outside the frame — it could be an airplane or simply a drunken starlet stumbling toward her limousine.

“Don’t let our planes get into the wrong hands,” the poster reads beneath the picture, directing employees to report anything suspicious to law enforcement and airport managers.

Not everyone appreciates the implications.

“A lot of my friends like to take pictures,” writes Erin McCann, a blogger at WeLoveDC. “Sometimes, we even like to take pictures of things like airplanes. You might call us hobbyists, photo enthusiasts, or just photographers. But now, thanks to a new campaign from the Transportation Security Administration, there’s something else you can call us: terrorists.”

The TSA’s “Blogger Bob” acknowledged on Wednesday that perhaps the poster “didn’t go far enough in distinguishing between general photography and suspicious surveillance activity.”

“Bob” also seemed to realize that it probably wasn’t smart for the TSA to tick off photographers, “since they’re extremely observant of their surroundings” and could actually help the administration spot genuine suspicious activity.

Nice save, Bob.

Authors: Kim Zetter

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