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“In a 2013 hearing on Capitol Hill, then-TSA administrator John Pistole, described the Red Team as “super terrorists,” who know precisely which weaknesses to ex
by noncoml 2y ago
“In a 2013 hearing on Capitol Hill, then-TSA administrator John Pistole, described the Red Team as “super terrorists,” who know precisely which weaknesses to exploit.”
“[Testers] know exactly what our protocols are. They can create and devise and conceal items that … not even the best terrorists would be able to do,” Pistole told lawmakers at a House hearing.
Good ol security through obscurity
“The pen-testers know exactly what our code is. They can create and devise attacks that not even the best hackers would be able to create”
Just fire this guy already. Shameful that he can’t spout out these pathetic excuses with a straight face
- squigz 2y ago> “[Testers] know exactly what our protocols are. They can create and devise and conceal items that … not even the best terrorists would be able to do,” Pistole told lawmakers at a House hearing. It seems reasonable to tailor your defense to the threats you're realistically likely to face.
- razakel 2y agoWe're supposed to believe that terrorists can't get jobs in airport security? Have you seen who they hire?
- llamaimperative 2y agoYou’re aware of them hiring people with extensive connections to terrorist organizations? Because that’s who typically commits terrorism.
- razakel 2y agoThey managed to hire 73 people with confirmed or suspected links to terrorism by 2015.
- squigz 2y ago73 of how many?
- llamaimperative 2y agoAccording to Wikipedia, about 54,000.
- razakel 2y agoJust saying, there was a reason the 9/11 hijackers were clean-shaven and wearing suits. It's not as if they'd make their patsys obvious.
- llamaimperative 2y agoOkay I admit it, I have morbid curiosity as to what exactly you're implying here.
- razakel 2y agoTerrorists aren't morons. In fact, they typically have engineering degrees.
- squigz 2y agoI would think if they're so smart, and the TSA is so useless, we'd be seeing a lot more terrorist attacks happen on/with planes.
- llamaimperative 2y agoTerrorists: so smart and so common and the TSA so useless that there have been zero successful attacks on air travel since 9/11. Zero.
- razakel 2y agoIn the United States, you mean? Because other countries adopted similar security protocols and still MH370 and Germanwings Flight 9525 happened. And the 2004 Russian bombings. You do have a point insofar as that 9/11 changed the game: previously a hijacking just meant you'd get an unscheduled vacation and would likely be released unharmed. Now the assumption is that it's a suicide mission so passengers will fight back. This is nothing to do with the TSA's security theatre; it's simply because most people don't want to die. To think overwhise is "my magic rock keeps away heffalumps" levels of reasoning. Because there have been zero heffalump attacks since 9/11. Zero.
- edm0nd 2y agoEven worse, he used to be a deputy director of the FBI lol Thankfully he's no longer at the TSA and the president of a university now. >John S. Pistole (born June 1, 1956) is the former administrator of the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and a former deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.[1] He is currently the president of Anderson University.