• Tamo240
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    4 months ago

    The goal is not to stop the people in the queue being attacked, its to stop someone boarding a plane with the means to hijack it

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      3 months ago

      They fail gloriously at at that too.

      Whenever they get tested the red teams manage to smuggle in everything needed to hijiack a plane plus a kitchen sink.

      The few times that terrorists tried to board planes, they made it through security and were caught by other passengers.

      • Final Remix@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        That’s what’s changed. Before, a hijacking meant a free trip to south America or Cuba. Now it means you’re likely to die if you don’t stop the hijackers. A planeful of pissed off passengers determined to live are gonna stop a would-be hijacker.

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            3 months ago

            Rigidly hierarchical control structures always carry the implicit assumption that those at the top are the good guys. (That is if they’re being sold as a way to ensure good)

            The common trope about “if you don’t have anything to hide why have privacy?” is overturned by challenging that assumption. Sometimes the guys doing the surveillance turn bad and then it’s a worse situation than if there wasn’t total surveillance.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, and you don’t need the TSA for that. Just do as they already do: lock the cockpit.

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        3 months ago

        Little known fact: many of the pilots behind those locked doors are armed as well.

        The Flight Deck Officer program allows pilots to volunteer to become deputized Air Marshals. They receive training and are issued a badge and a gun.

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            3 months ago

            Police officers are mentally ill? Interesting take.

            Also, we’re talking about pilots that you are already trusting with you’re life and the lives of hundreds of people with you. If they were mentally ill they could just crash the plane and kill you.

            These guys are genuinely invested in maintaining the safety of human lives.

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              3 months ago

              They should continue focusing on that instead of gun politics and their farcical contrived scenarios to have guns on a civil plane.

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        3 months ago

        Well, conceivably those in the cockpit could be manipulated through other threats. Either threats to crash the plane, or threats to hurt the people in the back.

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          3 months ago

          Part of their training includes risk assessment that teaches them to sacrifice individuals if it is in favor of maintaining control of the plane.

          They flat out train them to shoot through a hostage someone is holding. That one person’s life isn’t worth sacrificing the lives of hundreds of others on board as well is casualties on the ground.

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          3 months ago

          Nah, you literally just ground the plane whenever someone does something that rises to that level. Any threat someone could bring on a plane that could take it down is easily found by a bomb dog.

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        3 months ago

        IIRC water happens to appear similarly to a lot of explosives on the metric they use for what the composition of items in the scanner is.

        Improvements are being made though so soon we may be allowed to take water through unrestricted:

        Why Airport Security Suddenly Got Better (13:01) https://youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ?si=RTjA8GRuZaMIJs9d

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      3 months ago

      Ah yes, it’s okay if we die, just don’t take the corporate infrastructure with you when you go…