Finally someone who understands the fallacy of TSA Policy.
Here's the article, which finally put my ideas out there in a way I agree with. It's a disproportional response to terrorism that doesn't make any sense. It offers the illusion of additional security without the reality of it
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Some (vanishingly small) percentage of passangers are terrorists. The TSA tests each one to see if they are a terrorist. The TSA holds all the liability (blame) if a terrorist gets through. They hold no liability for an innocent who is delayed, harassed or gives up on flying. Thus, whenever they make the cost-benefit tradeoff of an idea is calculated, the incentive is to always error on the side of increasing security, no matter the cost of the tradeoff.
The way the system appears to be designed, the only way for the balance can ever reset is for there to be a backlash large enough to get onto the agenda of the TSA's bosses. Even if there are orders from above to back off, the unconscious mass of the bureaucracy will start sliding straight back in the same direction.
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