JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones
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Re: JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones
#2Serious question: if there is a 16 minute queue for "security", why wouldn't a potential terrorist just wheel up a carry on sized bomb and detonate it in the middle of the "security" line? Is this something that the TSA addresses (I assume not), or do they just ignore the possibility? All they've done is move the soft target further out.
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#3Serious question: if there is a 16 minute queue for "security", why wouldn't a potential terrorist just wheel up a carry on sized bomb and detonate it in the middle of the "security" line? Is this something that the TSA addresses (I assume not), or do they just ignore the possibility? All they've done is move the soft target further out.
Airport security is there to protect the planes, not the passengers.
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#4Serious question: if there is a 16 minute queue for "security", why wouldn't a potential terrorist just wheel up a carry on sized bomb and detonate it in the middle of the "security" line? Is this something that the TSA addresses (I assume not), or do they just ignore the possibility? All they've done is move the soft target further out.
Sort of like how they take those super-dangerous bottles of water and toiletries and place them in a secure receptacle AKA a trash can.
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#5Serious question: if there is a 16 minute queue for "security", why wouldn't a potential terrorist just wheel up a carry on sized bomb and detonate it in the middle of the "security" line? Is this something that the TSA addresses (I assume not), or do they just ignore the possibility? All they've done is move the soft target further out.
Setting aside the effectiveness arguments for the moment, the point of preventing weapons on aircraft is now less about 'a terrorist might blow up an aircraft' and more about 'a terrorist might hijack an aircraft and turn it into a gigantic missile'.
Obviously any place where there are large groups of people would be a target for attacks of this kind.
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#6From http://www.blipsystems.com/indoor-sensor/:
> When a device passes the sensors, its non-personal unique ID, called a MAC address, is recorded, encrypted and time-stamped. By re-identifying the device from multiple sensors, travel times, average speeds, dwell times and movement patterns become available.
Aren't MAC addresses spoofed on most phones now?! I didn't expect a system like that to still be usable.
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#7From http://www.blipsystems.com/indoor-sensor/ : > When a device passes the sensors, its non-personal unique ID, called a MAC address, is recorded, encrypted and time-stamped. By re-identifying the device from multiple sensors, travel times, average speeds, dwell times and movement patterns become available. Aren't MAC addresses spoofed on most phones now?! I didn't expect a system like that to still be usable.
It just needs the MAC to stay consistent for the duration of your travel through the airport.
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#8Serious question: if there is a 16 minute queue for "security", why wouldn't a potential terrorist just wheel up a carry on sized bomb and detonate it in the middle of the "security" line? Is this something that the TSA addresses (I assume not), or do they just ignore the possibility? All they've done is move the soft target further out.
Sort of like how they take those super-dangerous bottles of water and toiletries and place them in a secure receptacle AKA a trash can.
I thought the idea wasn't that they were volatile on their own, but components that could be assembled into a bomb once on-plane.
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#9I hope it didn't cost more than hiring extra people to get the mega-lines through faster.
Re: JFK Displays Actual Wait Times Using Beacons That Monitor Mobile Phones
#10From http://www.blipsystems.com/indoor-sensor/ : > When a device passes the sensors, its non-personal unique ID, called a MAC address, is recorded, encrypted and time-stamped. By re-identifying the device from multiple sensors, travel times, average speeds, dwell times and movement patterns become available. Aren't MAC addresses spoofed on most phones now?! I didn't expect a system like that to still be usable.
Even if spoofed, a MAC has to be (locally) unique or else you run into all kinds of network issues.
As for spoofed on phones, maybe if you have root. But i doubt it comes spoofed out of the box (at least i have never heard of such a thing).