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Shouldn't we have agents trying to get through security with guns, explosives and anything else that's restricted, multiple times per day so we can measure how
by akronim 17y ago
Shouldn't we have agents trying to get through security with guns, explosives and anything else that's restricted, multiple times per day so we can measure how effective airport security is and improve it? Ideally these agents would not get on the plane, or what they are given to carry through could be disabled in some way.
Otherwise how do we know it works at all? How do you check that the screeners are doing their jobs properly?
- potatolicious 17y ago"Otherwise how do we know it works at all?" This may be cynical of me, but I suspect this is precisely why we don't do penetration testing regularly... Funny scene a couple of days ago - I was taking the train from Canada to the USA, pre-clearing US border security before getting on the train. The gentleman in front of me had a pair of nail clippers in his carry-on, and was told he needed to put them in checked luggage to get on the train. First of all, nail clippers. Really? sigh Secondly, passengers carried their checked luggage past the security checkpoint themselves, out of sight of the security guys, and voluntarily placed their luggage on the checked luggage cart sitting essentially unattended. That gentleman, if he meant any harm, could have easily taken his nail clippers and gotten on the train with it and... well, I dunno what you would actually do with nail clippers on a train that's really so bad.
- gridspy 17y agoHe might decide to fly the train into a building.
- rdtsc 17y ago> could have easily taken his nail clippers and gotten on the train with it and... well, I dunno what you would actually do with nail clippers on a train that's really so bad. Oh you know ... induce mass discomfort and panic by clipping everyone's nails just a little too close to the skin ;-)