Crowd sourced security.
Feb 8, 2010 | 7:33 pm
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Crowd sourced security.
How is this for an idea?
Cover the TSA checkpoints with CCTV, likewise all the baggage areas and aircraft holds.
Record the video, but also make them webcams.
Certainly there are enough people out there who will skive off work to watch them.
Just the knowledge that their actions may be viewed in real time may cut down on TSA abuse and employee theft. . .
Cover the TSA checkpoints with CCTV, likewise all the baggage areas and aircraft holds.
Record the video, but also make them webcams.
Certainly there are enough people out there who will skive off work to watch them.
Just the knowledge that their actions may be viewed in real time may cut down on TSA abuse and employee theft. . .
Feb 8, 2010 | 7:38 pm
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How is this for an idea?
Cover the TSA checkpoints with CCTV, likewise all the baggage areas and aircraft holds.
Record the video, but also make them webcams.
Certainly there are enough people out there who will skive off work to watch them.
Just the knowledge that their actions may be viewed in real time may cut down on TSA abuse and employee theft. . .
Cover the TSA checkpoints with CCTV, likewise all the baggage areas and aircraft holds.
Record the video, but also make them webcams.
Certainly there are enough people out there who will skive off work to watch them.
Just the knowledge that their actions may be viewed in real time may cut down on TSA abuse and employee theft. . .
Feb 8, 2010 | 7:50 pm
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The terrorists already know they can walk through the checkpoint almost at will. It's the the public that needs protecting at this point in time.
Feb 8, 2010 | 8:10 pm
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Feb 8, 2010 | 8:16 pm
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You're right. Bad choice of word, I guess. Bascially, our procedures.
Feb 8, 2010 | 8:23 pm
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Feb 8, 2010 | 8:26 pm
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Feb 8, 2010 | 8:40 pm
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Open source security, including public verification of compliance (TSO compliance, that is), would do far more for security than any SSI you can imagine.
Implement this and I'll go though a WBI every time SATTSO is caught picking his nose
Feb 8, 2010 | 8:57 pm
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In a tour of TSA's baggage inspection area at CVG a couple years ago, we had to leave the area when they needed to open up a suitcase, claiming the customer's privacy would be violated if we all watched.
Maybe so -- but I'd also push to have the suitcase inspected, if necessary, right in front of you when drop it off. Then it can be relocked, and all the webcams in the world are welcome to watch it.
Maybe so -- but I'd also push to have the suitcase inspected, if necessary, right in front of you when drop it off. Then it can be relocked, and all the webcams in the world are welcome to watch it.
Feb 8, 2010 | 9:34 pm
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What would be the reason why a group of determined terrorists couldn't just buy a Starbucks Grande Mocha and sit near the security moat and observe and take notes to learn the way you work?
Feb 8, 2010 | 9:37 pm
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Yea, I guess we might as well not let anybody come to the airport except those who fly.
Feb 8, 2010 | 9:50 pm
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Feb 8, 2010 | 10:00 pm
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Feb 8, 2010 | 10:14 pm
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Why not? That is what Gale Rossides is doing. You should ask why her pay is so much higher than yours since you are reaching the same conclusions. @:-) Seriously. Every line screener (excepting TSORon and BloggerBob) has a handle on the reality of screening today. Even BloggerBob probably understands that the public is being ripped off and denied actual security, but he is being paid to be a mouthpiece.