Re: Adopting the Israeli Airport Security Model

[Alex Eckelberry <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

I have no real issue with your proposal. I think it is deeply impractical but I hate travel anyway. 

Alex 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 6:40 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Adopting the Israeli Airport Security Model

> 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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