When it comes to designing airport safety, instilling the feeling of safety in travelers is a more important goal than actual safety. This is a sorta-open-secr

When it comes to designing airport safety, instilling the feeling of safety in travelers is a more important goal than actual safety. This is a sorta-open-secret. We can sit around and come up with thousands of possible attacks scenarios with less than 1% of the security that goes into preventing airplane hijackings. But that doesn't really matter. Airport security is primarily a political item, both responding to political pressures and fears, while generating entirely new ones.