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I'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 goo

• dosy 7y ago
  So if some good comes of it, it can't be called theater.
• satiani 7y ago
  source?
  • codyb 7y ago
    Hijackings 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 ago
      You 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 ago
        I wasn’t trying to justify the mass surveillance and I totally read that table wrong, woops! That’s a brain fart ;-).
• social_quotient 7y ago
  Found 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=...