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[-] Tamo240@programming.dev 26 points 7 months ago

The goal is not to stop the people in the queue being attacked, its to stop someone boarding a plane with the means to hijack it

[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 52 points 7 months ago

They fail gloriously at at that too.

Whenever they get tested the red teams manage to smuggle in everything needed to hijiack a plane plus a kitchen sink.

The few times that terrorists tried to board planes, they made it through security and were caught by other passengers.

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

That's what's changed. Before, a hijacking meant a free trip to south America or Cuba. Now it means you're likely to die if you don't stop the hijackers. A planeful of pissed off passengers determined to live are gonna stop a would-be hijacker.

[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago
[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago
[-] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

True, although those seemed like pretty seriously incompetent attempts

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 19 points 7 months ago

They had to do something about the plague of people hijacking planes with bottles of water.

[-] Tamo240@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago

IIRC water happens to appear similarly to a lot of explosives on the metric they use for what the composition of items in the scanner is.

Improvements are being made though so soon we may be allowed to take water through unrestricted:

Why Airport Security Suddenly Got Better (13:01) https://youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ?si=RTjA8GRuZaMIJs9d

[-] Liz@midwest.social 19 points 7 months ago

Yeah, and you don't need the TSA for that. Just do as they already do: lock the cockpit.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Ah yes, it's okay if we die, just don't take the corporate infrastructure with you when you go...

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