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Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods

Posted by timothy on from the tech-crew-at-the-security-theater dept.

New submitter MickeyF71 writes "At the Hack in the Box security conference security expert Evan Booth shares the results of his two year research on the effectiveness of airport security. He demonstrates how easy it is to produce lethal weapons from goods easily bought from the tax-free section at most airports." Google's translation of the Dutch in that link isn't ideal. For those who prefer English to Dutch, Booth's presentation at CarolinaCon 2013 (YouTube video) may be a better bet.

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  1. First Post by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll be reading TFA while standing in the TSA security line at the airport.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
    1. Re:First Post by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Funny

      If the TSA guys could read they'd probably give you an hard time.

  2. They needed research for this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Go into any duty free shop and make a bee line to the liquor section. There's something wonderfully flammable stuff there.

    Although, for some of those Scotches, if a terrorist were to use them, you'd see Fark headlines like: "The Horror! 30 year old Scotch murdered in terrorist act! A plane and people died too."

    1. Re:They needed research for this? by gweihir · · Score: 1, Funny

      Indeed. I have been thinking this since 9/11. The TSA was an obvious scan right from the beginning,

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      Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
    2. Re:They needed research for this? by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny

      Precisely.

      Young children are compact and easily thrown to distract or injure a hijacker.

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      "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  3. Re:Ruining it for everyone by turkeyfeathers · · Score: 5, Funny

    The replacement clippers you bought in the shop were made of approved inert metal. The ones you tried to smuggle on the aircraft could well have been made of plutonium. You and a few of your terrorist buddies put your plutonium nail clippers together and... BOOM! So you see, the policy was effective. Now please report to Guantanamo Bay.

  4. Re: WTH does tax-free have to do with the subject by BubbaDave · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wanna hang out with this guy..

    Bring ear protection.