Schneier Talks to the Head of TSA

Bruce Schneier recently had the chance to sit down with Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and discuss some of the frustrations travelers experience head-on. "In April, Kip Hawley, the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), invited me to Washington for a meeting. Despite some serious trepidation, I accepted. And it was a good meeting. Most of it was off the record, but he asked me how the TSA could overcome its negative image. I told him to be more transparent, and stop ducking the hard questions. He said that he wanted to do that. He did enjoy writing a guest blog post for Aviation Daily, but having a blog himself didn't work within the bureaucracy."

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Ask him...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ask him the procedure for getting yourself off the no-fly list.

I'd ask myself, but I'd rather stay off that list, and since no one can say how you get on, this post might put me on that list, but I wouldn't know it until I couldn't fly next week.

P.S. Ask him if he admires Kafka and is trying to emulate his writings...

Re:Bill Maher had it right

[swillden]

He said, "Can we have another option to fly? We'll call it Fly At Your Own Risk Airlines. We won't screen for anything and you can pay for your tickets five minutes before your flight just like in the old days-1997."

They have this - commonly known as 'private' jets - though they are usually a commercial charter as well from a paperwork perspective. Thing is, most folks can't afford it.

Especially not terrorists. They could never charter a jet and then smash it into a building.