Re: Foiled terror plot aboard Northwest Flight 253 sparks strict security rules for air passengers

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:29:01 PST, Paul Ferguson said:

> > "Strict security rules put into place Saturday will require commercial
> > airline passengers to stay in their seats for an hour before landing.
> >
> > The measure was among those imposed by the Transportation Security
> > Administration after a suspected terrorist tried to blow up a Northwest
> > flight from Amsterdam to Detroit."

So the plot was foiled *before* the new rules were put in place, meaning
the rules aren't in fact needed to foil the plot in question?

A *foiled* plot means the current rules are sufficient.
A *successful* plot means we need to re-think our rules.

But of course that's real-security thinking, not security-theatre thinking.

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