frank comments on airline security

[jrtom]

via Bruce Schneier's blog, via BoingBoing: Australian Minister's Sensible Comments on Airline Security Sparks Outcry

Reading the comments, it appears that this minister may be a bit of a fruitcake. But I find her comments refreshingly forthright anyway.

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uh

[amnesiadust.livejournal.com]

So I read some of the blog comments and found something about a Monty Python sketch regarding how to defend yourself from someone armed with a banana. Googling to find the script, I found this.

(shudder)

Flight security

[fdmts.livejournal.com]

Returning via Dulles today, I realized what bugs me about the airline security rigamarole. It's not the pseudo security, and it's not the powerlessness. It's the fact that all those people ruin their whole damn day, with people yelling at them and everything ... and it's a waste of time.

That makes me sad.