Brice Schneider, the security technologist, and author, is debating on The Body Scanner issue in the New York Times… I highly recommend reading it…<\/p>\n
A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the level of magical thinking here is amazing \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to do something else.<\/p>\n
Take all the money spent on new security measures and spend it on investigation and intelligence.<\/p>\n
This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even a fair game. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed to get around it. Our security measures only work if we happen to guess the plot correctly. If we get it wrong, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve wasted our money. This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t security; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s security theater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
See the rest of the debate at,\u00c2\u00a0A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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