Re: [funsec] "michael chertoff reassured people things would only go so far"

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Paul Vixie wrote:

> "I don't see us moving to a total ban on hand baggage at this point"
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060813/ap_on_re_us/terror_plot_security_6

And BBC World and CNN International have been reporting for most of the 
last 24 hours that the UK _airlines_ are saying that a total ban on 
hand luggage for flights leaving the UK is an untenable position going 
forward (in fact, while writing that sentence, the CNN segment with 
this claim has just started playing _again_).  They (the airlines) are 
being diplomatic in not putting a timeframe on when they think the ban 
will have to be lifted, but the implications are "soon".

First, the obviously huge overhead of the more intensive individual 
searches and other processing obviously slows down the check-in and 
security processes.  But worse, moving normal hand luggage items like 
laptops, phones, music players, and other handheld electronics into 
checked luggage, en masse, has resulted in massive delays in checked 
luggage scanning, as all those electronics show up as "suspicious 
items" requiring more scrutiny per bag and many, many, many more hand-
searches of checked luggage.  That is why, several days after the 
initial alert, about 30% of scheduled flights from Heathrow are still 
being cancelled.


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.