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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 1378040" data-attributes="member: 6406">There&#039;s too much focus on security at airports, IMO. That&#039;s just one attack vector out of many. Real security happens with intelligence and law enforcement; there&#039;s no rule that says terrorists have to attack airports, and we either go nuts (and broke) trying to defend all possible terrorist objectives or we get them at the source. The FBI has been doing a pretty good job, incidentally. Check out the guy in Oregon the busted. (EDIT And he wasn&#039;t attacking an airplane! Imagine that! The TSA wouldn&#039;t have done anything to catch that car bomb.)Even if they WERE just attacking airports, if experienced law enforcement officers and intelligence operatives can&#039;t do their jobs, I don&#039;t think it&#039;s reasonable to expect some schmoe making $10/hour to pick up their slack. TSA employees are effectively drones following an algorithm, and that kind of security is normally pretty easily circumvented (ask me how I know!).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 1378040, member: 6406"] There's too much focus on security at airports, IMO. That's just one attack vector out of many. Real security happens with intelligence and law enforcement; there's no rule that says terrorists have to attack airports, and we either go nuts (and broke) trying to defend all possible terrorist objectives or we get them at the source. The FBI has been doing a pretty good job, incidentally. Check out the guy in Oregon the busted. (EDIT And he wasn't attacking an airplane! Imagine that! The TSA wouldn't have done anything to catch that car bomb.) Even if they WERE just attacking airports, if experienced law enforcement officers and intelligence operatives can't do their jobs, I don't think it's reasonable to expect some schmoe making $10/hour to pick up their slack. TSA employees are effectively drones following an algorithm, and that kind of security is normally pretty easily circumvented (ask me how I know!). [/QUOTE]

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