I feel somewhat uncomfortable defending the actions of a group that
seemingly brings so much discomfort to so many,but a recent on airport security not only regurgitates the obvious and well known,but lacks little strategic point of view. First,the well-known:Not only has the actual threat from terror been
exaggerated,they say,but the great bulk of the post-9/11 measures to
contain it are little more than what Schneier mocks as “security
theater”: actions that accomplish nothing but are designed to make the
government look like it is on the job. In fact,the continuing
expenditure on security may actually have made the United States less
safe.From an airplane-hijacking point of view,Schneier said,al-Qaeda had
used up its luck.Passengers on the first three 9/11 flights didn’t
resist their captors,because in the past the typical consequence of a
plane seizure had been“a week in Havana.” When the people on the fourth
hijacked plane learned by cell phone that the previous flights had
been turned into airborne bombs,they attacked their attackers.
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