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US Imposes Stricter Security Screenings At Foreign Airports, But Won't Expand Laptop Ban Yet (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The United States will require foreign airports to implement stricter security practices and screenings for any passengers headed to the U.S. John Kelly, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, announced today that the new measures were being put in place. Though he didn't go into specifics, Kelly said the new requirements would include further screenings of electronics, more thorough vetting of passengers, and measures meant to stop "insider attacks." The U.S. is also encouraging the use of more bomb-detecting dogs, "advanced checkpoint screening technology," and the addition of "preclearance" locations, which station U.S. customs officers overseas, allowing them to screen passengers before boarding instead of after they land. One thing Kelly didn't announce was an expansion of the tablet and laptop ban, which is currently in effect on flights from 10 airports in the Middle East and North Africa. If airports don't comply with the new screening rules, Kelly said, they may be subject to additional electronics bans. But for the time being, it sounds like the ban will be kept to those 10 locations. According to Reuters, airlines have 21 days to comply with the new rules for explosives screenings and four months to comply with everything else.
In the past ten years, there has been one successful plane bombing. When the fuck are voters going to grow up and realize it's not something anyone should worry about?
Something like 10,000 people are murdered with guns every year in the US, yet we hear NOTHING about banning laptops on guns!
So this means that every airport with US-bound flights needs to have a 2nd security checkpoint just for the US-bound gates ?
Many of them already do. When I flew from Munich to the US last time, I went through three different security screenings. And I'm not counting the interrogation that takes place before they even let you into the check-in line, or the outbound customs and immigration folks.
Because if I were a terrorist who wanted to reach my target in the US, I would just fly out of another country that isn't on the list. Maybe even one with less strict security. Problem solved. So, explain to me how this is going to protect us?
Yea, Munich has quite the security whenever I visit home.
Not all of them do though. Iceland is pretty relaxed, and they are ramping up flights to and from the States.
However, this is pure ridiculousness. I absolutely hate traveling home, I'm going to hate it even more now and I'm an American. I can't imagine how many foreigners just won't even bother anymore.
I'm not even sure I want to bring my hard drives for work any more. I encrypt them of course, but just the thought of an image they could spend limitless resources trying to break, for god knows what reason, I think I'll just keep stationary hard drives and find a more private and secure cloud service.
Ahahahahahahaha, nice one! You do mean this satirically, right? Because otherwise you would ignore overwhelming evidence that all this security theater has no relevant effect except inconveniencing travelers and keeping people out that are not dangerous but have opinions the US administration does not like.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Sure, just as long as you realize that according to data, common sense, and not caring if we offend them, we should be banning white men from getting guns.
I have a rock here, it protects you from tiger attacks. I have never been attacked by a tiger, since I had that rock.
Aside of that, no. The airline industry would not disintegrate. Traveling by plane is about as uncomfortable, as inconvenient, as cumbersome and as fucked up as it ever was. Especially when traveling to, from or in the US. I honestly don't know a single person who enjoys it. Not one. Anyone who can somehow avoid traveling by air already does so. People willingly replace air travel by train or even bus if at all possible. We do have airport bombings, which is pretty much the same deal as far as travelers are concerned since they have to go through airports to get to planes. And still people travel by plane.
People already don't want to travel by plane. They pretty much have to.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Not the world, just the people willing to put up with this shit by travelling to the US, just go else where done and finished. No strip search, no stolen digital gear, no interrogations, not data mining, no illegally installed software on your devices, no rude and arrogant customs, just don't go.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen