TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office

Re:TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office by DanBC on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:00AM (#11761165)

They stop about 10 handguns a week. They don't say, and it's hard to know, how many guns they don't stop.

I think none of those gun owners had plans to use the gun at an airport or on a flight.

There's small amounts of evidence that "terrorists" moved to different approaches - the Inkjet cargo bombs, for example.

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Re:TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:58AM (#11761521)

> They don't say, and it's hard to know, how many guns they don't stop.

95%. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-u...

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Re:TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office by DanBC on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:22PM (#11763487)

For fucks sake, that link talks only about internal testing, which tells you nothing about the actual failure rate of real world people smuggling guns onto aircraft.

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Re:TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @02:35PM (#11764291)

I'd be very interested to know why you think that makes a difference. These tests were run during normal checkpoint operation, with normal screeners.

Even if they used some internal knowledge, everyone here should know the adages about security through obscurity. TSA checkpoints are clearly enormously vulnerable if they can get through 95% of the time.

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Re:TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office by drdeca on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:54PM (#11763876)

I would think that it would be something one could take into account when coming up with an estimate.

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