But of course, we'd never be so stupid as to play into the terrorists hands this way. I'm sure they don't laugh at us running around like idiots throwing away toiletries, getting strip-searched, and shuffling through security barefoot while someone ogles our naked bodies in another room. We sure showed them!
I don't entirely understand the individual psychology behind terrorism, but I'm absolutely certain that it isn't so they can laugh at us when we're in the security queue.
But the point was - terrorists aim to provoke fear and discord; blowing up a passenger aircraft is pretty terrifying, but causing anger, fear frustration and discord on an international scale can be just as good. And all they have to do is get a bomb (even a useless, utterly ineffective one) onto a plane every few months.
Bureaucracy does the rest :)
Umm.. just as a thinking exercise what can one do with this?
My take, make a bomb which is deployed in the shoe and is triggered by your urine with some electronics in your underwear. You can have some liquids which will help you piss (normal drinks do help but make it specialized).
I know someone who was visited by FBI at their workplace, and at home, because of what they said on a message board. They speculated about how a terrorist attack _could_ happen.
Then there is the recent case of Yasir Afifi. FBI were tracking him because his friend made a post that caught their attention.
Unfortunately our law enforcement and other government agencies don't interpret "freedom of speech" like most regular citizens do. And it certainly doesn't guarantee protections against harassment and embarrassing bullying that accompanies such "investigations"
Responding to each terrorist threat, post-threat, by banning any method they used in their attack is a bad way to secure the western world.
The terrorists will just adapt and find other methods, as they have proven time and time again. In the interim, millions of travelers take their shoes off at airports, can no longer carry liquids on planes and have perfumes and aftershaves confiscated.
With all the different ways our lives have been adjusted because of each attack attempt I have to ask myself if we are not letting them win.
"Organized terrorists are long term planners and they do not play the same cards more than once."
TSA To Ban Airplanes Next Week : SD OMG-WTF-BBQ
You can imagine which is rewarded and which is punished. Not just by politicians and bureaucrats, but by the public as well. The general public is also responsible for this absurdity by not being willing to accept some risk as being unavoidable.
Invest in barbershop stocks.
Not a problem. I'm sure people can buy/make stickers that say "15 ounces" and stick them on the cartridges.
wouldn't it be better to have expected volumes and masses for various items, and where items defer from these expectations, they get inspected fully?
many customs sheets include a declaration of the package contents.
What does change is the chemical signature of the contents. That would require inspection of each item as it is presented for shipment. Hence the problem.
