[IP] Security Theatre, Act 456 - Are we safe yet?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dan Brown <brown@brauhaus.org>
Date: September 22, 2006 5:15:26 PM GMT+02:00
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Security Theatre, Act 456 - Are we safe yet?



I was on a flight into DCA yesterday.  After deplaning, I stopped off at
the restroom, still in the "past security" part of the airport.  This  
was a
bit past 5pm, when there were a good number of inbound flights, all of
which arrived at about the same time -- in otherwords, the restroom was
packed.

As I was leaving, a cleaning guy, pushing a big gray wastebasket/ 
janitors
cart, walked in.  He parked the cart/wastebasket at the door and went  
in to
do whatever he was there to do.  I noted that it appeared he'd made a
previous stop at or near the security checkpoint.

Maybe that last was a bit of a deduction, but, my deduction is based  
on the
large collection of confiscated water bottles, lipsticks, toothpaste  
tubes,
and various other verbotten dangerous liquids, gels and the like sitting
there _unsupervised_ in the top of the wastebasket like a big bowl of  
candy
for anyone to just grab a handful of as they walked out of the restroom.

I didn't report it to security. Should I have?

Are we safe yet?

--
Dan Brown
brown@brauhaus.org



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