I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport

Re:I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Was... by crankylinuxuser on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @12:36PM (#20345928)

> I just wish we can all come to our senses and realize that the TSA doesn't really make us safer and that it just makes everyone mad. Unfortunately, people just seem to put up with it.

Indeed. What makes us safer are 2 things:

1. Secured cockpit doors 2. Passengers

Now, if someone tried doing something bad/unsafe/terrorist, everybody would jump them, and stop them from doing the thing. That's how shoe-guy was stopped. The passengers about killed him.

It used to be the chokepoint was departure. Now the TSA shoves a chokepoint to "terrorize" at the lines in front the scanners. And wherever you move the scanners creates yet another chokepoint. I'm surprised someone of ill intent hasn't done something at the lines of people.

But in the end, there's little we can do. Ideally our politicians should reconsider their roles, but thats 'reducing security yadda yadda', and political suicide.

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Re:I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport – It Was... by friedegg on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:17PM (#20346354)

On #2, I think people may forget that prior to 9/11, the idea was to let the hijacker go where they wanted, as the passengers usually ended up safe due to cooperation. Even on the day of 9/11 itself, once passengers realized cooperating was going to get them killed, then fighting back gave them a higher chance of survival.

The 2016 Brussels bombing did involve explosives in the check-in area of the airport.

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