Re: Adopting the Israeli Airport Security Model

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

> Implementing Isreal-like security would make travel a) unbearable and b) incredibly time consuming. 

Yes, and that'd be an entirely good thing.  There's far too much pointless
(and expensive, and energy-wasting, and...) air travel in the US.  So one
way to help Israel-like security work in this US (at least as far as
scale goes) would be to cut out 95% of air travel.  No more conferences,
no more business meetings: use telecommunications instead.  It is, after
all, one of the reasons we built this series of tubes.

Note that as a side effect this would correspondingly reduce the air
travel target surface.  Of course given the immense size of the overall
target surface, the benefits of this might be largely psychological
rather than real.

Of course, even if scalability issues were addressed, in this fashion
or in some other, there are *other* remaining issues to be dealt with
if such measures are to be used here.

---Rsk

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