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It's merely security theater. It reminds me of when airports started scanning people's shoes because an attacker had used a shoe bomb. Yes, that'll stop an att
by ndsipa_pomu 2y ago
It's merely security theater.
It reminds me of when airports started scanning people's shoes because an attacker had used a shoe bomb. Yes, that'll stop an attacker trying a shoe bomb again, but it disadvantages every traveller and attackers know to put explosives elsewhere.
- geoffpado 2y ago“attacker had used a shoe bomb” It’s even dumber than that. An attacker tried and failed to use a shoe bomb, and yet his failure has caused untold hours of useless delay for over 13 years now.
- kevin_thibedeau 2y agoNow you have to buy your liberty with pre-check.
- eli 2y agoMost ransomware attacks are opportunistic. They scan basically the whole internet for vulnerabilities and attack from there. It's usually not a skilled attacker targeting a specific company. Ransomware is a huge and growing problem. Very different than airline security, where attacks are extremely uncommon. If planes were constantly getting blown up, and if a majority of those attacks started with a shoe bomb, then checking everyone's shoes would seem a lot more reasonable, no?