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I once stood in line at an airport for an hour to pass through a checkpoint watching an entire large pallet of boxes marked "bakery goods" go through a pass thr
by coldcode 12y ago
I once stood in line at an airport for an hour to pass through a checkpoint watching an entire large pallet of boxes marked "bakery goods" go through a pass through lane without any checks of any kind. It doesn't surprise me that workers don't go through security checks because it's "too hard". Why would you lock your front door with 5 locks and then leave your back door wide open and claim your house is secure?
- onion2k 12y agoWhy would you lock your front door with 5 locks and then leave your back door wide open and claim your house is secure? Because locks serve two purposes. One is to make your house secure. The other is to tell other people that security is important to you. What happens at airports is entirely about politicians telling the public security is important to them. It has nothing to do with actually making anything secure. Schneier's term "security theatre" is completely appropriate for what happens because you're not supposed to look behind the scenes, or you'll see how fake it all is.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI was told by a pilot that in the industry a common term for the TSA is "Thousands Standing Around".