Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
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Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#2Great headline based on a simulation. Says so in the second sentence of the abstract. Is it hard to do a test using real machines? What's stopping them?
Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#3Great headline based on a simulation. Says so in the second sentence of the abstract. Is it hard to do a test using real machines? What's stopping them?
Why should the company that makes these machines allow access to them?
Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#4Great headline based on a simulation. Says so in the second sentence of the abstract. Is it hard to do a test using real machines? What's stopping them?
Why should the company that makes these machines allow access to them?
Shouldn't the airports or governments (or whoever is paying for these) test them properly?
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shouldn't the airports or governments (or whoever is paying for these) test them properly?
That's true if their main concern is security, as opposed to security theatre.
I'm not even sure security simulation is the main concern at this point. it rather seems to be giving as much tax dollars to the companies who helped politicians get into office in the first place.
Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shouldn't the airports or governments (or whoever is paying for these) test them properly?
That's true if their main concern is security, as opposed to security theatre.
The money allotted to the TSA for the scanners was specifically part of a stimulus package (ba-da-bing!). It didn't directly have anything to do with security, more pass through grant to the scanner companies.
Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#8I was in 4 different airports in the US recently. Didn't have any problems in any of them.
I will note though that the big scanner off to the side that I saw in one airport had the product name:
"Rapiscan"
... which probably doesn't seem like such a good idea now to their marketing team.
Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's true if their main concern is security, as opposed to security theatre.
I'm not even sure security simulation is the main concern at this point. it rather seems to be giving as much tax dollars to the companies who helped politicians get into office in the first place.
To me it seems that at this stage it's purely a matter of refusing to back down on any "security" measure because that could be interpreted as "letting the terrorists win" by political opponents or voters.
Re: Pornoscanners trivially defeated by pancake-shaped explosives
#10The question is: is anybody surprised? (particularly curious about those at DHS/TSA, and scum like Chertoff... I'm guessing not)