Originally Posted by
dasanmarco
That is true, criminals having an inside man in law enforcement is pretty much one of the oldest tricks in the book.
As far as TSA stealing, that mostly happens to checked luggage, as someone stepping out of the body scanner would realize their laptop/wallet just went missing and would complain immediately, and the screening area is loaded with cameras. Hence why you should never put valuables in checked luggage.
Far from it-do a little more reading around here & you'll see that. The lesson is to make sure your carryons can't be opened or their contents easily accessed while they are in the tunnel & out of your sight. And never leave anything loose in the bins as I've seen many pax do.
As far as the cameras go, there is a long & well documented history w/those never being pointed in the right direction (or broken or whatever lame excuse the TSA comes up with) to capture the sticky fingered smurf in action which is why so many of them are able to get away with this for so long. One smurf went so far as to have his wife sew hidden pockets in his uniform jacket to put his ill-gotten booty in while he continued working.
The biggest security hole in our current aviation system, in my opinion, is the TSA itself. About the only thing screeners haven't been caught doing, yet, is smuggling explosives onto an airplane.
Seriously.