Screeners and Airport Security

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“There’s no such thing as absolute security. Life entails risk, and all security involves trade-offs.” says Bruce Schneier the author of Schneier on Security. We believe the way our security is now keeping us safer. We have this belief when in all actuality our security system is flawed. When you and your luggage are having to go through a full body scanner, possibly being called out from the no fly list when you know in fact that it is not you, and our security is costing our airlines and passengers a great deal of money, and possible and actual threats are getting through, something might need to be done about our airport security. Our inflight security is flawed and needs to be rethought because the screeners are not detecting all harmful objects, the no fly list is extremely unreliable, and it is costly to our airlines and passengers.
The screeners we put all of our personal belongings through are still not detecting all the harmful objects out there. Schneier says, “Airport screeners have a difficult job, primarily because the human brain isn’t naturally adapt to the task. We’re...

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