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Imagine if some source indicates that explosive fibers can be woven into innocent looking clothes, would all passengers be required to be naked before they are

Imagine if some source indicates that explosive fibers can be woven into innocent looking clothes, would all passengers be required to be naked before they are allowed to fly? I believe we can do better than this outright banning ...

username223 9y ago
I sometimes wonder if "the terrorists" have a twisted sense of humor. They put a bomb in a shoe, so now we all have to take off our shoes at the airport. Learning from this, they put a bomb in some guy's underwear. Fortunately we don't have to take off our underwear at the airport now, but we do have to be gawked at essentially naked by underpaid TSA rent-a-cops. It's only a matter of time before they think of the "butt-plug bomber," and we get cavity searches before boarding planes.
- tyingq 9y ago
  There's a similar situation waiting to happen with OFAC regulations. They have a blacklist of people's names[1]. They compel banks and companies like Paypal to do loose/fuzzy string matching for any money transaction and block it. The string doesn't have to match just in the payer or payee field. It can match anything, like a memo field. It already affects people with popular common names that are similar to the real person on the list[2]. Waiting for some suspected terrorist on the list to legally change their name to "THANK YOU" or "PAYMENT FOR" or similar. [1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/... [2] https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Business-Archive/The-Secret-Paypal-Blacklist/m-p/925329#U925329 https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Business-Archive/T...
- r00fus 9y ago
  all while Emmanuel Goldstein rolls in his fictitious grave.
tyingq 9y ago
We already had an underwear bomber. I believe that was the driver for the body scanners or obligitory grope policy in the US.

username223 9y ago

I sometimes wonder if "the terrorists" have a twisted sense of humor. They put a bomb in a shoe, so now we all have to take off our shoes at the airport. Learning from this, they put a bomb in some guy's underwear. Fortunately we don't have to take off our underwear at the airport now, but we do have to be gawked at essentially naked by underpaid TSA rent-a-cops. It's only a matter of time before they think of the "butt-plug bomber," and we get cavity searches before boarding planes.

tyingq 9y ago
There's a similar situation waiting to happen with OFAC regulations. They have a blacklist of people's names[1]. They compel banks and companies like Paypal to do loose/fuzzy string matching for any money transaction and block it. The string doesn't have to match just in the payer or payee field. It can match anything, like a memo field. It already affects people with popular common names that are similar to the real person on the list[2]. Waiting for some suspected terrorist on the list to legally change their name to "THANK YOU" or "PAYMENT FOR" or similar. [1] https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/Pages/default.aspx https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/SDN-List/... [2] https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Business-Archive/The-Secret-Paypal-Blacklist/m-p/925329#U925329 https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Business-Archive/T...
r00fus 9y ago
all while Emmanuel Goldstein rolls in his fictitious grave.

tyingq 9y ago

We already had an underwear bomber. I believe that was the driver for the body scanners or obligitory grope policy in the US.