TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing officers to stay home

Re:TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing ... by Canada on Thursday January 17, 2019 @02:53PM (#18933977)

Remember before all the TSA nonsense, airports had metal detectors and xrays operated by airport security? Did they not also prevent guns from being carried on planes?

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Re:TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing ... by threeseed on Thursday January 17, 2019 @03:29PM (#18934306)

Isn't TSA just Airport Security ?

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Re:TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing ... by Canada on Thursday January 17, 2019 @03:48PM (#18934487)

No, it's also a power and money hungry agency. The airport security of yore just did their jobs and were a lot more pleasant to deal with. The traveling public was just as safe.

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Re:TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing ... by beatgammit on Thursday January 17, 2019 @09:30PM (#18936577)

And perhaps more safe. Security theater is a real thing and gives people a false sense of security.

I've heard that the reason we haven't had a major terrorist attack in the US since 9/11 was because of vigilance of the public. If people get lazy and start trusting that the TSA will competently do their job, we're likely to have another. I think it's because the TSA is pretty bad at their jobs that we haven't had anything major attack.

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Re:TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing ... by vkou on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:46PM (#18934952)

Airport security didn't try to extort you into buying pre-clearance, or try to enforce ridiculous and pointless rules.

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Re:TSA acknowledges financial stress of shutdown is forcing ... by cellularmitosis on Thursday January 17, 2019 @03:53PM (#18934528)

I don't think local airport security back in the day had a nationally organized no-fly list.

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