Security theater

According to Bruce Schneier of Wired Magazine, “exactly two things have made airline travel safer since 9/11: reinforcement of cockpit doors, and passengers who now know that they may have to fight back. Everything else…is security theater.”

One of the best points I read regards CAPS and Secure Flight, the programs designed to prevent “dangerous” people from flying. The people on these lists are “too dangerous to be allowed to fly under any circumstance, yet so innocent that they cannot be arrested, even under the draconian provisions of the Patriot Act.”