Safe, But Also Sorry

The TSA focuses too much on specific tactics and targets. This makes sense politically, but is a bad use of security resources. Think about the last eight years. We take away guns and knives, and the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and knitting needles, and they put explosives in their shoes. We screen shoes, and they use liquids. We take away liquids, and they'll do something else. This is a dumb game; the TSA should stop playing. Some screening is necessary to stop the crazy and the stupid, but it's not going to stop a professional terrorist attack. We don't need more and better screening; we need less.

The 9/11 terrorist attacks allowed the government to expand its power over us by exploiting the fear in most of us. Bruce Schneier thinks we could use our resources better by using them a lot more wisely and not by targeting old folks in wheelchairs.