Clear Led a Flyer Carrying Ammo Under a False Name to TSA, Sparking Probe

Re:Clear Led a Flyer Carrying Ammo Under a False Name to TSA... by Hermitian909 on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:46PM (#36947796)

My proposal: More or less what we had pre 9/11. We solved the the vulnerability that 9/11 exposed in under a year - the inability to lock down the cabin to protect it from hostiles. Every commercial plane has newer doors installed now.

This means the only really viable attack on aircraft is to blow them up mid-air which:

1. Is much less impactful

2. Still achievable by a determined actor today

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Re:Clear Led a Flyer Carrying Ammo Under a False Name to TSA... by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:44PM (#36948516)

Just want to say I very much agree with this, and pretty much most of the other responses here. A lot of the times when I hear people talk about TSA "security theater" I hear them arguing that we really shouldn't have any screening at all, but it seems like the responses here are arguing specifically against:

1. Taking off your shoes

2. The liquids rule

3. Taking out your laptop.

To which I totally agree (and since as a TSA Precheck member I never hit those issues anyway I don't notice them as much).

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