Originally Posted by MSY-MSP
Now, from a local screener at MSP there is a rumor that the SSSS on the BP is going to be changed. What he said is that because SSSS has gotten out in the public domain as the key to secondary screening, it has lost whatever effectiveness that it may have had.
It's sure taken them long enough to realize that!
Originally Posted by MSY-MSP
What he said is that a new procedure will be implemented to identify who is getting the SSSS. One may be a variable random number generator that will select people while they are in line. A second version might be to use row numbers which could chnage on a random basis on the BP as the selection critera.
Random is slightly better from the perspective of making it tougher for a terrorist to know and "come back later" or hand off his stuff to a co-conspirator, but to be truly effective, it would have to be a fairly high % of fliers... and then it is REALLY going to tick off the frequent travelers and back the lines up even more, ticking off the infrequent travelers, too (the ones who usually say, "anything for security!" when asked to undergo SSSS--but they HATE long lines)