Vanity Fair On the TSA and Security Theater

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 23, 2011 @05:01AM from the keeping-the-terrists-from-winning dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "Perhaps it's now officially cool to criticize the TSA. Vanity Fair has a story questioning the true value of TSA security. The story features Bruce Schneier, inventor of the term 'security theater' and contender for the Most Interesting Man in the World title, it would seem. With Schneier's mentoring, the author allegedly doctors a boarding pass to breach security at Reagan National Airport to do an interview with Schneier. 'To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a trillion dollars can wreak. So much inconvenience for so little benefit at such a staggering cost.'"

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Re:Get a clue Big Sis by magarity · 2011-12-23 05:15 · Score: 1, Flamebait

It's all very fine to go on about how great Israeli airport security is but it'll never happen in the USA. The Israeli method relies heavily on profiling and in the USA the ACLU (and CAIR and a slew of other organizations) will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who even suggests such a horrible, racist, islamophobic idea.