All You Need To Know About Airline Security

[theFrankFactor]

All You Need To Know About Airline Security

If it explodes and can be hidden where it is not found security is a failure.

It becomes a choice of probabilities. Many, largely right wing idiots, would have us search only those individuals that look like they have a bomb strapped to them. Apparently, not only are terrorists evil but their dumb as dirt as well according to some people. Every item that is exposed to the opportunity of being altered by human hands that doesn’t go through a security check is a potential hiding place of explosives. The matter is a choice of what amount of danger you are willing to accept. If you think that a white, businessman or little old lady from Pasadena couldn’t possibly have an explosive planted on them or politically angry, or just plain nuts than that’s a level of danger you are willing to accept.

Hence: If it explodes and can be hidden where it is not found security is a failure.

[stray cat]

1. I sure hope others know more than I need to know then......

[oserb]

2. Wake up sleepy !

I've never been able to figure this out --- if the underwear bomber really wanted to take down that plane why didn't he detonate the bomb in the bathroom? Someone else waiting to use it? Answer that question and you are on your way to reality !!!

[ThatsMyBarack]

6. Welcome to DU, oserb!

:hi:

[unblock]

3. i wouldn't call security a "failure" simply because it's not 100% fool-proof

the point of security is NOT to make something 100% safe because anyone who knows anything about security will tell you that that's not remotely possible.

all security can do is make it so that only the most determined (and perhaps lucky) villains can get through.

given that there are a tiny number of people crazy enough to give up their lives for this sort of thing, we'll NEVER be able to stop 100% of them. all we can do is choose between various levels of challenging for them and expensive and inconvenient for us.


ultimately, someone within tsa or a baggage handler could be a sleeper or they could threaten a pilot's family. it doesn't have to be just the passenger.

[theFrankFactor]

4. I Said "The matter is a choice of what amount of danger you are willing to accept."

and "It becomes a choice of probabilities."

No biggie. So much for reading comprehension.

[Quantess]

5. White people, moms with toddlers, senior citizens, get searched too.

Have you somehow been passed over by the TSA so far?