Airport Security Rejoices At Yet Another Excuse To Harass Innocent Travelers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-plane-travel-rules27-2009dec27,0,7505689.story?track=rss
Travelers flying into the U.S. face stricter security measures

Unfortunately, the stricter security measures are worthless, as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab proved. Would you consider suspicious a man on an international flight with no luggage? If you can remember back to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the terrorists were taking flying lessons, but were only interested in take offs, not on landings. Does that seem suspicious to you? Evidently the people in charge of security at airports don't think that is suspicious behavior.

Bruce Schneier, an author and security expert, was interviewed for this article, and he explained why the new security measures were as useless as the old security measures. "This is security theater," he said.

Even in the low tech world we live in, there are destructive devices that can be strapped to the body that will not show up on any kind of security scans.

I wonder what might work? Do you think a strip search all the passengers along with a body cavity search would work? That is what they do in American prisons, and the prisoners still find ways of making weapons and killing each other.

Also, I don't think this will happen as many Muslims and terrorists (is there a difference) would object on moral and religious grounds. I am sure both groups would object to showing off their bodies or their weapons.