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Security Matters: Airport Pasta-Sauce Interdiction Considered Harmful

2008-09-18 18:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...screeners confiscate anything from that second class is a waste of time. All it does is harm innocents; it doesn't stop terrorists at all Let me explain. If you're caught at airport security with a bomb or a gun, the screeners aren't just going to take it away from you. They're going to call the police, and you're going to be stuck for a few...
 
Tags: security, security screeners, airport security checkpoints, checkpoints, airport security, screeners, liquid, london liquid bombers, airport screeners
 
 
 
 
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The Two Classes of Airport Contraband

2008-09-23 05:47:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...screeners confiscate anything from that second class is a waste of time. All it does is harm innocents; it doesn't stop terrorists at all Let me explain. If you're caught at airport security with a bomb or a gun, the screeners aren't just going to take it away from you. They're going to call the police, and you're going to be stuck for a few...
 
Tags: airport security checkpoints, checkpoints, airport security, screeners, security screeners, liquid, london liquid bombers, airport screeners, plot
 
 
 
 
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TSA Employees Bypassing Airport Screening

2008-09-19 08:01:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...screeners are now able to bypass airport screening : The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rolled out the new uniforms and new screening policy at airports nationwide on Sept. 11 The new policy says screeners can arrive for work and walk behind security lines without any of their belongings examined or X-rayed Lunch or a bomb, you...
 
Tags: airport, bypass airport, airport security, security, transportation security administration, airport screeners, security lines, screeners, major security issue
 
 
 
 
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TSA Misses the Point, Again

2008-01-29 15:13:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...screeners inspect the ID cards by illuminating holograms, typically of government seals, that are found in licenses and passports. Screeners also are getting magnifying glasses that highlight tiny inscriptions found in borders of passports and other IDs. About 2,100 of each are going to the nation's 800 airport checkpoints The closer scrutiny...
 
Tags: tsa, tsa screeners, tsa agent, tsa document checker, screeners, passenger ids, passenger, screeners inspect, airport
 
 
 
 
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CATSA: XRay Machines Are Not For Gum Wrappers

2008-06-08 12:58:43 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...screeners in this country From The Canadian Press Continued inspections across the country have revealed that garbage and other items are still being dropped inside the top panel openings of some X-ray machines, says a bulletin issued earlier this year by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority Likewise, warning labels and hazard...
 
Tags: catsa, similar act, act, screeners, airport screeners, time officers, empty coffee cup, top panel openings, time
 
 
 
 
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Really Good Point From Schneier ...

2008-10-01 14:36:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...screeners are confiscating this week. If there's no consequence to getting caught with it, then confiscating it only hurts innocent people. At best, it mildly annoys the terrorists To fix this, airport security has to make a choice. If something is dangerous, treat it as dangerous and treat anyone who tries to bring it on as potentially...
 
Tags: dangerous, hurts innocent people, screeners, airport screeners, treat, airport security, mildly annoys, consequence, terrorists
 
 
 
 
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Consumer Reports on Aviation Security and the TSA

2008-01-10 13:58:40 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...screeners actually are, but I've covered all that already
 
Tags: security, aviation security, security consultancy, doors, double doors, door, consumer reports, secure door, cockpit doors
 
 
 
 
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Boring Jobs Dull the Mind

2008-04-26 06:37:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...screeners looking at X-ray scans, casino dealers looking for cheaters, building guards looking for bad guys. It's hard to do it correctly, because the brain doesn't work that way
 
Tags: brain, brain begins, brain activity, activity, brain scans, flanker task, default mode network, functional magnetic resonance, task
 
 
 
 
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The War on T-Shirts

2008-06-02 14:27:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...screeners watch out for make it more likely that real threats slip through. At a party the other night, someone told me about the time he accidentally brought a large knife through airport security. The screener pulled his bag aside, searched it, and pulled out a water bottle It's not just the water bottles and the t-shirts and the gun...
 
Tags: security, security lesson, london heathrow security, airport security, real threats slip, water bottles, transformers t-shirt, gun jewelry, false threat
 
 
 
 
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Talk to the TSA

2008-09-29 05:40:27 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Send your personalized message to TSA x-ray screeners using metal plates you can put in your carry-on luggage
 
Tags: tsa x-ray screeners, carry-on luggage, metal, message