so, what can be done to better secure air travel?

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

Strategic:
0. Review useless technologies which are there for beyond the security 
theater purposes (which do matter) and start killing bad projects. Your 
purpose in security theater was to maintain air travel and keep people 
calm, right?
1. An investment in better intelligence (no brainer)
2. Create a "always strip-search" list rather than just "no fly" list.
3. Hire better agents (education/ability... money). Shouldn't be a small 
increase per person, but it will cost a lot in total. Then again, how 
much do all the current b/s additions cost?
4. Yours?

Tatical:
1. Copy Israel's air security training manual for agents. Israel's 
tactics may not be able to scale to the US level, but the training can.
2. Stop panicking and alienating people, so they are calmer and you can 
more easily identify suspicious people, so that this new training is 
more effective. Heck, do it anyway. Send TSA agents to some workshop on 
being nice. Or make shifts shorter.
3. Put "human sniffer" walk-through machines in every airport, for 
international flights.
4. Buy the better brand of baggage screening && X-ray machines for 
international flights (remember the liquid issue with checking for 
explosives in the last scare?)
6. Yours?

Some of these are very high cost. Some of these are very low cost.
Some of these should replace other high-cost idiocies, such as creating 
two new mega-airports, which is sound security-wise, but will only add 
an hop to the threat to jump over, with the same silly tests, rather 
than add a filter.

        Gadi.


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Gadi Evron,
ge () linuxbox org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
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