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How hard is it to pour your possible explosive liquid into a bin with all the other possible explosives in the center of the largest, densest crowd in the airp.
by TallGuyShort 8y ago
How hard is it to pour your possible explosive liquid into a bin with all the other possible explosives in the center of the largest, densest crowd in the airp... Oh wait I see your point.
- joering2 8y agoWow. Make sure you let us know how the FBI visit went.
- asark 8y agoLots of us had the same thought with those famously huge crowds at airport security just post-9/11. Cabinet member on one channel (we had channels then) telling us how sophisticated, dedicated, well-funded, and capable our adversary is, and how they're basically everywhere. Change the channel, story about massive lines at airports. Put two and two together, quick mental math involving how long air travel might be crippled in the entire OECD by a single attack at a security line and the economic damage of that—not to mention the, you know, terror of such a follow up attack, I mean it's right there in what we call this whole thing—then the cost of such an attack versus the entire 9/11 project (a fraction), and as the weeks pass and the obvious doesn't happen you start to go "hey wait a minute, that may have been a crazy fluke by some not-well-coordinated group and the cabinet member's just bullshitting me about this Bond villain terrorist organization thing." I suspect having had that thought was a common differentiator between the folks who were on board with the plan at least until Iraq, and those who were already going "hey can we wait a minute?" before the invasion of Afghanistan.
- village-idiot 8y agoThis is why I’m more nervous in security than I am on the actual plane.
- sneak 8y agoDon’t be nervous. TSA misses the vast majority of weapons during screening in repeated tests, so it is evident that basically no one wants to commit mass violence on/with planes.
- village-idiot 8y agoThat ... didn’t help.