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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
"Manufactured" - well, yes, of course, but they're not pretending . If nothing else, they're concerned the plane doesn't fall out of the air because they missed something, from a financial angle if nothing else. It's come about because of all the incidents that have occurred, and the climate we have been in - and not simply 11/9.
And the fact that present precautions aren't good enough is surely an arguement for more/different ones - not doing away with what we have.
And obviously, I don't know your background in anti-terrorism and aircraft safety, but of course they thinking safety first - why else are they doing it ?
It's certainly not to make money, believe me, the airlines would long to be able to abandon security measures !
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Your assumption that "something needs to be done" is what I question. Smarter experts than me (look up Bruce Schneier and Security Theater, for example) have covered this way better than I ever could, but suffice it to say that a terrorist attack has never been caught at the security check-in line or on a plane, and never will. They get caught because of all the behind-the-scenes detective work that agencies like the CIA, FBI, Interpol, etc do, and not from Joe T. Worker grouping your genitals and taking nudie pictures of your grandma/child, and not by any flight attendant asking you to turn off your electronic devices.
As far as electronic devices go, if you've ever flown I will bet you that you've done so with multiple cell phones and other devices on and active, either because people didn't know how to shut them off or didn't actually care to do so. There has
never been a case of a consumer electronic device interfering with flight systems or causing a crash, so why are we starting with the base assumption that that's the case and proving otherwise? We should start with the base assumption that these devices are
safe, and only do otherwise when there is a proven issue that's directly attributable to some device.
But, we get groped and have to shut off our electronics because people demand that governments and regulation agencies "do something!! !! !! uu!!", so we get security theater that doesn't do anything to make us safer (and possibly makes us
less safe, like queuing up huge lines that are attractive targets for terrorists ...) as a result.