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Is aviation security mostly for show?
- rdtsc 17y agoI am glad Schneier's article got on cnn.com. General public would benefit greatly from reading this. Unlike other pundits and "experts" he actually knows what he is talking about when it comes to security. To paraphrase my comment to a related thread: both security theatre and terrorism is about managing _perceptions_. One is just a response to the other in the public and media domain. Therefore, the government will respond using theatircs and flare. They will do whatever it takes to _seem_ like they is doing something. Lots of rules, directives with cryptic long numbers separated by dashes, TSA employees with uniforms resembling those of real police officers, etc, etc... This is quite different than actually making anything or anybody any more safe. Another point worth mentioning is that TSA has yet to show at least one foiled or stopped terrorist attempt in all these years since its existence.
- nfnaaron 17y ago"A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy a country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage." Hear hear.
- timwiseman 17y agoMany of the points in this excellent article made me think of the movie "The Siege."