Welcome To Security Theater
May, 2010
In 2008 security expert Bruce Schneier said, "Counterterrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better." Thisshow began in earnest in 1973, when the FAA started usingmagnetometers to screen every passenger and piece of luggage that passed through U.S. airports. Since then security devices have evolved only enough to keep up with past assaults on human life. From 1999 to 2009 an airline traveler had a one-in-10.4 million chance of being the victim of a terrorist in...
