Originally Posted by daw617
Vulnerability #2: The US is allowing people to bring medications on board, even if they are in liquid form, so long as they prove they have a valid prescription. This inconveniences honest passengers, but opens up a hole that terrorists could exploit. A terrorist could easily obtain a legitimate prescription, then replace the medicine with some other chemical of his choice and board the plane with prohibited chemicals.
Heck, it doesn't even have to be a legitimate prescription. As a poster was fond of point out in my thread on confiscating a solid deodorant stone, terrorists could quite easily use a printer to create a label and a fake prescription pad sheet--it's not like the TSA is going to be able to call them in to verify their legitimacy.
Yet another reason this is such a sham, such an illusion of safety, that it is nothing more than a fuzzy security blanket for all the ostriches to cower beneath.