Originally Posted by
magellan315
Your job is to prevent knives, guns, and explosives from getting on board planes, you don't need a terrorist profile to do that. You have all sorts of widgets to help you. Before you start concerning yourself about catching Osama Bin Laden, try concentrating on improving the abysmal failure rate you have with Red Team tests. As well as the reports that the GAO has issued about the failure of TSA to deal with its primary mission.
Our biggest problem as an organization (with regards to failing the red team testing) is technology. We are currently using 1960's-70's technology with some upgrades and patches. It limits our capability to detect some of the bad things because it was not designed to look for it. With the rollout of the new Xrays, some of those failures would be eliminated because of the new technology. Then again, some of the failures are just that, failures.