Originally Posted by
NotaCriminal
To be fair, it's not apparant to me that this is a "well-known fact" or common believe if people on this forum (and other sites and private conversations, etc.) are asking questions about the "random" selections process. I'm no road warrior (or air-warrior), but I am no neophyte to flying either, and this is the first I've heard of any feature of the WTMD "randomly" indicating selections for further actions for the TSA.
That being said, thank you for posting the information. Knowledge is everything (to me, anyway). And I'd prefer if something were truly random, rather than someone's "hottie alert" selection decision, etc.
I'm sorry, and you're right, of course.
As jkhuggins said, randomness does have a place in security, and it's extremely hard, if not impossible for a human to be random. Therefore, this feature was introduced very early when it comes to WTMDs.
However, it is a well-known feature to those who've operated WTMDs, but I shouldn't have assumed that it's common knowledge.
-SB-