Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liquids on Cabin Luggage

Re:Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liqui... by hypeatei on Sunday August 04, 2024 @10:51AM (#41153912)

I'm convinced all airport security is pure theater and wouldn't actually stop a terrorist attack. For example, the Dept. of Homeland Security (US agency) found that the TSA's failure rate is "in the ballpark of 80%"[0]

Another quote from the article: "secret teams from the DHS found that the TSA failed 95 percent of the time to stop inspectors from smuggling weapons or explosive materials through screening."

So we're wasting peoples time and forcing nonsensical procedures upon them to... not actually stop anything.

[0]: https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-...

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Re:Passengers at EU Airports Not Allowed over 100ml of Liqui... by 8bithero on Sunday August 04, 2024 @11:10AM (#41154044)

Same. Additionally, it would be far more lethal if an explosion where to happen at the security gates rather than on an actual plan. The bottle necks caused by these security checks means there are potentially 1000s of people penned into a tiny room. On paper the checks make sense, but in reality their implementation creates a much greater potentially danger zone for passengers.

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