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They did not have to take a picture of that many travelers in the 90s (let alone social media which did not exist) and it wasn't less secure either. They probab
by realusername 7y ago
They did not have to take a picture of that many travelers in the 90s (let alone social media which did not exist) and it wasn't less secure either. They probably never considered if their program is any useful or if it creates more harm than good.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoI'm no fan of modern security theater but the number of plane hijackings and bombings in the 90s compared to today would seem to indicate that at least some good comes of it.
- dosy 7y agoSo if some good comes of it, it can't be called theater.
- satiani 7y agosource?
- codyb 7y agoHijackings were pretty much a daily thing (or three times daily thing) for decades. Although until 9/11 the intent usually was either to get to a non extradition country, or demand something from some nation state primarily. The source above shows a clear decrease in airline fatalities through the years but I suspect that’s due more safety improvements through autopilots, better sensors, and more redundancy than the decrease in hijackings.
- llao 7y agoYou are vastly over-exaggerating. According to https://aviation-safety.net/statistics/period/stats.php?cat=A1 https://aviation-safety.net/statistics/period/stats.php?cat=... , even when limiting to the period between ~1970 and ~2003, it is about 2 per month on average. The total sum of fatalities is just over 1000 people. This is nothing to justify the massive surveillance.
- codyb 7y agoI wasn’t trying to justify the mass surveillance and I totally read that table wrong, woops! That’s a brain fart ;-).
- social_quotient 7y agoFound this source because I was curious the same https://aviation-safety.net/statistics/period/stats.php?cat=A1 https://aviation-safety.net/statistics/period/stats.php?cat=...