Originally Posted by
BubbaLoop
My favorite part is that the science shows that supposed behavior detection is worse than chance alone.
I'd trust infants or toddlers' "behavior detection" before I'd trust the TSA or any other "profiling" characters working "security" at airports -- and the young diaper-wearing children don't expect wages/salaries and other employment benefits for the "privilege" of being subjected to their "security" screening and screaming.
Originally Posted by
Schmurrr
I think researchers have said that terror organizations prefer to recruit people who are focused, calm, sane, and intelligent. I doubt BDOs are looking for that.
According to
BBC News:
That sounds like a large part of the flying population. Plus, I am sure a highly educated terrorist is well aware of BDO techniques and how to counter them (if the techniques are effective at all). I would say that a highly educated terrorist probably already has an answer to
every TSA tactic and an assessment of the risks presented by each.
Most of the people who have been at monitored "Al-Qaeda" training camps in various parts of Asia and Africa don't come close to anything I would consider middle to upper middle class under an American or British standard of living; nor are they college-educated on average. The average "international terrorist" is more akin to that Kasab idiot captured alive in Bombay during the massacre in November 2009.
This isn't to say that terrorists are all cut of the same cloth and playing SPOT makes sense -- neither holds true.