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This is a very serious issue. The TSA needs to start auditing everything that gets onto an airplane. They should designate secure areas in airports where everything and everyone that enters must undergo inspection beforehand. They should set up some kind of checkpoint for this purpose. It would be a good idea to have personnel verify the identity of individuals before they are allowed into the inspection area. Perhaps they could then have persons remove their personal belongings, including their potentially explosive pagers, and set them aside for separate inspection. They could even make them remove their shoes and belts for added safety. This might sound like a crazy idea right now but I think with sufficient research they might be able to build a machine that can detect metal, and require people to pass through this machine before being allowed through. They could have personnel stationed on the other end to conduct secondary inspections of passengers if needed. As for baggage and other personal belongings, they may be able to leverage a technology used in the medical industry, the X-ray machine, to see the inside of bags and electronic devices to detect concealed explosives or other prohibited items.
The current situation where they just let you walk straight in from outside right onto to the plane is unacceptable. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
The TSA is security theater. They fail security audits to an absurd degree. It is only there to ensure consumer confidence in buying air travel and nothing more.
I wonder about these sorts of things on stuff as minor as local public transport, and I feel like the security guards are not earning their money back (so to speak).
(also, public transport should entirely be paid with land taxes)
Public transit security is mostly a waste, it is mostly about "deterring" fare evasion, which is a very minor cost compared to the cost of training and employing entire humans to check for fare evasion.
The money would be better spent on addressing root causes of fair evasion. Out all of it into funding free transit fairs and it would be auch better use of municipal funds.
We had a month of free transit here and everyone said the results were very positive (its already mostly paid for by taxes anyway), so... idk, I'm guessing neolib Labor will ignore it and carry on. We have free transit on Sundays now
Free transit is such a win-win for everyone except the car industry. It's an amazing lesson in capital's control, really.
also, public transport should entirely be paid with land taxes
bus georgists bus georgists I guess the argument is if your real estate takes up lots of space, you make public transport more expensive.
Very funny but I doubt the pager explosive would be particularly detectable.
A amall explosion in a pressurized tube could definitely be destructible.
tl;dr anyone got the movie rights to this novel?
I honestly thought this was a joke.It was a joke. I was barely waking up.