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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 3:46 pm
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sowalsky
 
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If this is seen through to fruition, behavioral profiling when done by trained individuals (and I don't mean the 80-hours-of-training lackeys that comprise most of the TSA) can be an IMMENSE improvement for airline/airport security.

It takes an extremely well-conditioned terrorist to be able to slip by behavioral profiling, hence why Israel never has a single incident. However, where today's front line of "security" is based upon clothing and the ability for someone to take a cursory look at an x-ray monitor, the chance of a terrorist slipping through is as high as it was pre 2001!

This is great news. Maybe the TSA can take a hint from other more developed security systems and not subject every traveller to invasive bodily searches when they pass a brief behavioral interview/interrogation. Sounds good to me!
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