Comments on: Airports: Neither Secure Nor Convenient

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:37:37 +0000

@tom I expect we’ll be flying naked soon, sort of like the way they time travel in The Terminator.

@anim8ed I assume that a background check is not 100% perfect, which can be said for most so-called security measures. My experience is that the good guys get caught up in these measures far more often than the bad ones.

@howdy I’ll take the wisdom of the crowds over the current system.

By: anim8ed

anim8ed — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:30:43 +0000

You mentioned many of the reasons I left the TSA after 2 years. I was on the initial roll-out of TSA back in 2002. I later found out that a screener I worked with for 2 years was using a false ID and was a convicted felon. What happened to background screening and how did this slip through that process?

By: tndaisy1960

tndaisy1960 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:11:15 +0000

I’ll stick to Greyhound, thanks…until they start screwing with that, too.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:18:52 +0000

we have been taking off our shoes in the security line since the Richard Reid incident. in this latest incident the perpetrator attempt to set off a bomb sown into his underwear. the security lines will get interesting. all logic says that we will all be required to remove our underwear and pass it through the x-ray for screening. right?

By: howdy

howdy — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:34:44 +0000

Regarding your penultimate statement, the one draw back to this is people are so distrusting of anything ‘different’ that kneejerk reactions are going to be high especially when you consider nations are being groomed to fear the unknown. We’ve already seen it since 9/11 where people have reported passengers for praying or reading certain books.