TSA silliness OTD
2012-09-27 19:15:01.115481+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Nothing you don't already know. Vanity Fair asks if any of the post 9/11 "security" crap actually does anything, featuring Bruce Schneier.
... The best memorial to the victims of 9/11, in Schneier’s view, would be to forget most of the “lessons” of 9/11. “It’s infuriating,” he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. “We’re spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do.”