Fake Security
As a frequent flyer who is often around other frequent flyers, I’ve had this conversation dozens of times in the last year: all the airport security is a crock. It isn’t designed to provide real security. It’s there to provide the appearance of security. We put in obvious and often stupid measures to look like we’re fighting the last major threat whether that’s shoe bombing, liquids, or flying a plane into a building. Wired writer Bruce Schneier expands on this theme and writes that most of the security various government agencies have implemented over the last five years is there to serve one purpose: Cover Your Ass.
