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Security Theatre, Act 456 - Are we safe yet?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:38:48 +0200
Begin forwarded message: From: Dan Brown <brown () brauhaus org> Date: September 22, 2006 5:15:26 PM GMT+02:00 To: dave () farber net Subject: Security Theatre, Act 456 - Are we safe yet? I was on a flight into DCA yesterday. After deplaning, I stopped off atthe restroom, still in the "past security" part of the airport. This was a
bit past 5pm, when there were a good number of inbound flights, all of which arrived at about the same time -- in otherwords, the restroom was packed.As I was leaving, a cleaning guy, pushing a big gray wastebasket/ janitors cart, walked in. He parked the cart/wastebasket at the door and went in to
do whatever he was there to do. I noted that it appeared he'd made a previous stop at or near the security checkpoint.Maybe that last was a bit of a deduction, but, my deduction is based on the large collection of confiscated water bottles, lipsticks, toothpaste tubes,
and various other verbotten dangerous liquids, gels and the like sittingthere _unsupervised_ in the top of the wastebasket like a big bowl of candy
for anyone to just grab a handful of as they walked out of the restroom. I didn't report it to security. Should I have? Are we safe yet? -- Dan Brown brown () brauhaus org ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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