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Don't forget the most recent success of our information agencies, the printer bomb that was intercepted and defused. That was a big success to our current secur
by jameskilton 16y ago
Don't forget the most recent success of our information agencies, the printer bomb that was intercepted and defused. That was a big success to our current security systems.
What does the TSA do though? Ban printer cartridges on planes. WTF?! I thought this was a success? Now it's being treated like a failure?
I'm waiting for the first congressman to openly call out the TSA as a terrorist organization. He or she will get my vote for the rest of my life.
Great article Mr Schneier, couldn't have said it any better.
- stretchwithme 16y agoIf you stop flying as a result of this nonsense, then the TSA really will have won.
- jdp23 16y agoTo the contrary. If we stop flying until the TSA changes their policies, it will encourage the airlines and the rest of the travel industry to put pressure on the TSA and the government.
- stretchwithme 16y agoBetter yet, buy refundable tickets and then cancel them until the airlines grow some.
- SpikeGronim 16y ago"That was a big success to our current security systems." No, it wasn't. Saudi intelligence provided the tracking numbers for the parcel bombs[1]. All the billions of dollars that we've spent on airport security did absolutely nothing. As Schneier as argued before, if you secure the one route the attack just comes from another route. 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/middleeast/06terror.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/world/middleeast/06terror....
- jameskilton 16y agoSorry, I said that wrong. I didn't mean a success for airport security but for the intelligence agencies who aren't infringing on basic freedoms and privacy of the general public (who in this case has good enough diplomatic ties with other intel agencies around the world to have this information passed to us).