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so, what can be done to better secure air travel?
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:16:22 +0200
Strategic: 0. Review useless technologies which are there for beyond the security theater purposes (which do matter) and start killing bad projects. Your purpose in security theater was to maintain air travel and keep people calm, right? 1. An investment in better intelligence (no brainer) 2. Create a "always strip-search" list rather than just "no fly" list. 3. Hire better agents (education/ability... money). Shouldn't be a small increase per person, but it will cost a lot in total. Then again, how much do all the current b/s additions cost? 4. Yours? Tatical: 1. Copy Israel's air security training manual for agents. Israel's tactics may not be able to scale to the US level, but the training can. 2. Stop panicking and alienating people, so they are calmer and you can more easily identify suspicious people, so that this new training is more effective. Heck, do it anyway. Send TSA agents to some workshop on being nice. Or make shifts shorter. 3. Put "human sniffer" walk-through machines in every airport, for international flights. 4. Buy the better brand of baggage screening && X-ray machines for international flights (remember the liquid issue with checking for explosives in the last scare?) 6. Yours? Some of these are very high cost. Some of these are very low cost. Some of these should replace other high-cost idiocies, such as creating two new mega-airports, which is sound security-wise, but will only add an hop to the threat to jump over, with the same silly tests, rather than add a filter. Gadi. -- Gadi Evron, ge () linuxbox org. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
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