DANGER ROOM Editor Noah Shachtman is at JFK airport in New York where there's been a security breach that's thrown terminal three into chaos. Gotta love the wild 'n crazy world of TSA, where security breaches mean you trap all the passengers in an enclosed area, leaving them completely vulnerable.

Anyhow, as Noah reports:

I'm at New York's JFK airport, waiting to catch a flight to Los Angeles. And there's been a major security breach here at the Delta terminal, number three. According to TSA workers, someone ran through the security checkpoint, maybe an hour ago. No one has been allowed to pass through, since. There must be a thousand people here who can't get on their flights. The TSA workers have no idea what's going on – "We know as much as you," one told me. Passengers are generally calm. But that could change, quick. Passengers in the "sterile areas" were just told to "evacuate the building." Cell service has been spotty - I'll try to update as things develop...

Got another update here:

*The deeply crazy part of this fiasco is that it's created an even more hazardous situation than any freak rushing through a checkpoint ever could. God forbid someone should rush into the terminal with explosives strapped to his chest. The death toll would be in the hundreds. And if that wasn't scary enough, you should hear the soft rock blasting from the airport's speakers. And the occasional pre-recorded bromides against smoking in the terminal, handing other people your bags, etc...

Noah's heading back to LA, but I'm betting he'll be slightly delayed.

Ryan Singel has additional details. And here's one more update from Noah: