Smoke Screening or why the TSA and all its procedures are useless | Vanity Fair

redteams:

As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.

Or better described by John Gruber:

$1.1 trillion down the toilet. Enjoy your holiday air travel.

All this security theater doesn’t help stop the bad guys. Hell, it makes the good guys annoyed and that’s all.

Proper intelligence gathering, layered security (AKA Israeli airport security model) and common sense and proper personnel training are the beginning of a good solution.

Oh, that last part common sense and proper personnel… Well, you have to you have to hire people with a little more brain that just a random Joe that was able to pass the screening.

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