Thursday, March 23, 2006
Airport Passenger Screening
Bruce Schneier reports on Airport Passenger Screening "In tests between November 2001 and February 2002, screeners missed 70 percent of knives, 30 percent of guns and 60 percent of (fake) bombs. And recently (see also this), testers were able to smuggle bomb-making parts through airport security in 21 of 21 attempts. It makes you wonder why we're all putting our laptops in a separate bin and taking off our shoes."
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Yes...apparently this sort of mediocrity is by design. Known as "The Bikini Principle"....you just have to cover ...er...a portion of the problem. Apparently....as this article describes (http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/Business/story?id=1743386&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312) airline terrorists require a 90% chance of slipping through security. So even the current mediocre security is enough of a deterrent.
you skipped the last and best line of that quote - "(Although we should all be glad that Richard Reid wasn't the "underwear bomber.")"
Underware bomber... right... that would surely undermine the "The Bikini Principle" :)
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