20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
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#2I already don’t. Turns out the solution is to give up some privacy and pay some money.
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#3I already don’t. Turns out the solution is to give up some privacy and pay some money.
This is one reason why it will be hard to get rid of the silly requirement to take shoes off. DHS has a financial interest in keeping the theater going.
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#4I thought shoes were due to Richard Reed, not 9/11?
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#5I thought the removal of shoes was a response to the Shoe Bomber plot, not 9/11?
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#6Get TSA precheck
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#7No, because we’ve made it some anyone with the power and means to make a change is unaffected by it for a nominal fee.
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#8The interesting part to me is that the mode of attack for 9/11 can't easily be repeated. It depended on passengers assuming the plane was being hijacked, and that they would eventually be released.
That stopped working on the 3rd (edit: 4th) plane. I don't see how it would work again. Passengers now default to assuming there's no path to live other than fighting back.
Meaning many of the measures we still take aren't really preventing anything. I do understand this doesn't apply to the shoes (shoe bomber), but that's just one of many things we've put in place.
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#9I thought the removal of shoes was a response to the Shoe Bomber plot, not 9/11? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
It was shortly afterwards so falls in the same mental “bucket” for all practical purposes.
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#10Get TSA precheck
Cheapest way is with a Nexus card I believe. Great program.