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The TSA misses about 95% of guns, so chances are you’ll be fine.
by dannyw 7y ago
The TSA misses about 95% of guns, so chances are you’ll be fine.
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoIs this for checked bags or carry on bags? I thought we literally walk through metal detectors?
- garblegarble 7y agoIn carry-on bags - bags go through an x-ray machine with an operator looking at so many negatives that it's next to impossible for them to spot a positive case. Schneier has a nice piece about it in an excerpt from one of his books: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/failures_of_air.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/04/failures_of_a...
- asdff 7y agoMakes no sense why ML isn't used, with a quick peep at a potential positive by a human before they rip your luggage open with a buck knife.
- garblegarble 7y ago>Makes no sense why ML isn't used I agree, although remember that it changes the problem for the attacker too: they're switching between trying to fool a (bleary-eyed) general intelligence to simply fooling a ML algorithm... think about how obvious and jarring anti-facial-detection face camoflage is for a human, whereas the machine simply sees nothing.
- CaliforniaKarl 7y agoThe latest report I could find says 70%: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa-misses-70-of-fake-weapons-but-thats-an-improvement/#1a719dfb2a38 https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelgoldstein/2017/11/09/tsa... Are there newer stats that show 95%?
- dragonsky67 7y agothe 25% difference is the bad guys who don't own up to carrying.
- vxNsr 7y agoProbably an older stat, I do remember reading the 95% figure for an internal audit.