Security Risks of TSA PreCheck

Re:Security Risks of TSA PreCheck by ethbro on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:40AM (#13263706)

> random search

Or in other words, ignore concerns about profiling and implement an Israeli style security operation.

I think it has a lot to be said for it. Profiling + politeness + a firm boundary on mandate (e.g. no drug convictions by airport security) doesn't seem that bad. Especially compared to what amounts to the same thing except with a vast security army of more poorly trained agents.

Ethnically profiling selection without ethnically profiling assumption isn't a nuance I'd trust the average TSA agent to perform well.

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Re:Security Risks of TSA PreCheck by umanwizard on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:45AM (#13263753)

I think by "truly random" he means uniformly random, i.e. the exact opposite of profiling.

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Re:Security Risks of TSA PreCheck by thescriptkiddie on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:04AM (#13263879)

Racial profiling is the opposite of a random search.

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Re:Security Risks of TSA PreCheck by dogma1138 on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:15PM (#13264372)

Well the Israelis profile single white european women in their 20's and 30's as one of the highest risk threat actors because historically they are been the ones that knowingly or unknowingly been used to smuggle munitions or explosives pass security.

Being brown skinned an arab or a muslim isn't what would put you on top of their threat ranking.

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Re:Security Risks of TSA PreCheck by ethbro on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:48AM (#13264170)

If we want to be technical, it's a weighted random search based on historical observations.

It would be the exact opposite if 100% of the ethnically profiled individuals were terrorists.

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