TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangerous Direction

Re:TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangero... by twtw on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:44AM (#18641335)

By hidden, I wasn't referring to guns just left in bags. The TSA calls it "artful concealment" - stuff like guns taped to steel plates (for X-ray shadow) or knives stuck in the bottom of deodorant. Maybe those people just forgot it, but that's a pretty weird thing to do at any time.

I don't see how sane plays into it - either they are sane and accidentally have a gun in their bag, or they are insane. How can you filter by sanity?

Point is, probably most of the people with guns, swords, etc are not malicious, but I haven't seen any statistics on that, only this 95% cited over and over again.

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Re:TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangero... by int_19h on Sunday December 09, 2018 @08:13PM (#18644445)

How often does that happen, though? I can't even recall last time I heard of a case of someone deliberately trying to conceal a gun or a knife in luggage.

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Re:TSA’s Roadmap for Airport Surveillance Moves in a Dangero... by twtw on Sunday December 09, 2018 @09:11PM (#18644678)

198 artfully concealed items found in 2017: https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2018/01/29/tsa-year-review-record-a.... That's pretty extremely rare, given the number of people who go through TSA screens ever year.

I'd recommend reviewing the link though, as that number includes things you might not think are deliberate attempts to hide stuff (swords in canes?).

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