{"id":4053,"date":"2015-06-13T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2015-06-13T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:09:40","slug":"the-tsa-and-airport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4053","title":{"rendered":"The TSA and Airport Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bruce Schneier talks sense on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/06\/reassessing_air.html\">TSA and airport security<\/a>. After recent reports that the TSA missed 96% of Red Team attempts to smuggle simulated guns and bombs through the check points many are asking why we even have a TSA. As one Israeli wag<sup><a id=\"fnr.1\" name=\"fnr.1\" class=\"footref\" href=\"#fn.1\">1<\/a><\/sup> quipped about the TSA, \u201cThis is not an airline security system, this is a system for bothering people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Last year, Americans spent seven billion dollars on the TSA, apparently for little benefit. We didn&#8217;t get improved security, just increased inconvenience and annoyance. Schneier has some thoughts on why, despite the TSA&#8217;s dismal performance, we haven&#8217;t seen any successful attacks since 9\/11 and how we can better use that $7 billion to make flying and other routine activities safer. <\/p>\n<div id=\"footnotes\">\n<h2 class=\"footnotes\">Footnotes: <\/h2>\n<div id=\"text-footnotes\">\n<div class=\"footdef\"><sup><a id=\"fn.1\" name=\"fn.1\" class=\"footnum\" href=\"#fnr.1\">1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<p class=\"footpara\"> A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-schindler-tsa-20150605-story.html\">former head of security<\/a> for El Al. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier talks sense on the TSA and airport security. After recent reports that the TSA missed 96% of Red Team attempts to smuggle simulated guns and bombs through the check points many are asking why we even have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}