Re: Adopting the Israeli Airport Security Model

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Alex Eckelberry
<AlexE () sunbelt-software com> wrote:

> Fair enough.  It's a trade-off that I would gladly make, however.  I
> might also posit that if we dedicated the financial resouces to stopping
> plane crashes as we do to airline security, the ROI would be better.
>
> I suppose what's lost in this whole discussion is the fact that airlines
> are one attack vector.  You get that nailed down, the terrorists will
> move to shopping malls and other mediums.  This is, after all, what they
> do in Isreal.

Again, Alex and I agree (not surprising, really :-)

I'm of the opinion that, yes -- we do need good screening options at the
airport. but I would also argue that if you rely solely stopping these
threats at the airport security screening process, you've already lost the
battle.

The real failure here is how this guy ever managed to get approval to fly
in the first place -- this was an intelligence failure, first and foremost.

- - ferg

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