TSA looks to spend $3M on Macs, iDevices in pilot program

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  • Reply 41 of 45
    chiachia Posts: 715member

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    Originally Posted by SpamSandwich View Post


     


    Actually, I was not suggesting that there aren't people attempting to do bad things to passengers and planes. Because the TSA is run by government, they have to adhere to ridiculous restrictions on treating passengers unequally, aka "profiling". Privately run security would not face this same restriction.



     


    It was privately run security that let those 18 onto the planes that fateful morning of September the 11th.


     


    I understand the reluctance behind profiling, it can lure you into a false sense of security.


    These terror organisations and their henchmen aren't dumb either.  Start profiling for one group of people and they'll switch to another group.


    It's best to be vigilant and open minded to the possibility that anybody may be a threat:


     


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    bud foxbud fox Posts: 1member


    Glad to see the "Thousands Standing Around" crew is getting their own iPads and Mac laptops.  Hopefully they will quit stealing the traveling public's iPads and Mac laptops.

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  • Reply 43 of 45
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member

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    There wasn't any planes and terrorist bomb attacks when this country was founded, so I don't know what would have been allowed and not allowed back then..  Well, do you HAVE to travel by plane in this country?  NO.  You can take a bus, a car, a train, a boat, etc.  This is only when you go to the airport.  I am still trying to figure out one' s civil rights being violated?  Being searched at an airport?  Its' the same people that get all bent out of shape if they go through a publicized checkpoint for DUI and they get asked to see their registration and driver's license.  Before they had the TSA at airports, we had people taking control over a plane and flying them into various buildings.  Which do you want?



     


    When this country was founded "we" were the terrorists, at least in the view of England.

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  • Reply 44 of 45
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member

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    For those who still think that TSA is anything more than security theater designed to make you feel safer without actually doing much of anything. I give you this http://gmancasefile.blogspot.com/2012/01/tsa-fail.html


     


    Excellent source article.

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  • Reply 45 of 45
    jragostajragosta Posts: 10,473member
    For those who still think that TSA is anything more than security theater designed to make you feel safer without actually doing much of anything. I give you this http://gmancasefile.blogspot.com/2012/01/tsa-fail.html

    That's a ridiculous article.

    Expecting TSA to be perfect is inane. At the same time, expecting that all the extra inspections and attention don't do any good at all is equally inane.
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