Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan

Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by wazoox on Monday October 18, 2010 @09:25AM (#1803374)

Did you read at least some of the most prominent articles from Schneier on security? Do it, it's worth it. The basic tenet is this : filtering potential threats at the bottom of the plane is almost useless, but makes a nice "security theater". Investigating the menace is harder, doesn't show off as well as nice big machines in airports, but it's efficient.

Scanning people shoes is useless. Full body scanners are useless. As the pilot said, what will they do when someone try to blow up a plane with dynamite in his rectum? Rectal check for everyone? This is absurd, expensive and serves only one purpose : covering TSA officials' asses.

See for instance some of these: http://www.schneier.com/essays-airline.html

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by borism on Monday October 18, 2010 @09:52AM (#1803473)

I read Schneier all the time and agree with him most of the time.

Not once did he advocate not screening pilots, did he?

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by wazoox on Monday October 18, 2010 @10:04AM (#1803513)

Please read carefully :

http://www.schneier.com/essay-304.html http://www.schneier.com/essay-245.html http://www.schneier.com/essay-299.html

Security in airports is already much too high, too annoying and too costly. There must be a point when it stops getting tighter and tighter. It won't catch the next terrorist anyway. We need a better use of resources and people (better than taking away mineral water bottles, and full-body scanning everyone and his dog).

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by borism on Monday October 18, 2010 @10:21AM (#1803573)

I absolutely agree that security measures have to achieve balance between security, comfort and civil liberties.

But I'm still not seeing him advocating not screening the crew. And how could he advocate something like that.

It would be like him saying "use strong encryption to protect your information, but make sure that passwords are written on post-its so it won't get lost".

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by zargon on Monday October 18, 2010 @01:37PM (#1804387)

"I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet." (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you...)

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by borism on Monday October 18, 2010 @02:39PM (#1804589)

Oh well... Nice!

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