TSA = Laughable Security
When a group of senior executives and myself saw the coverage of the recent flaming-pants-terror-attack on TV, their first response was “Ugh. They’re going to take away our carry ons.” On further discussion, they predicted what the TSA would do, almost down to a T. And I was the only one in the room who has been working on terror my entire adult life. Hilarious.
Simply put. The TSA has taken the path of ultra-linearity. You can’t rely on these guys to get ahead of the problem. IE. If someone shows up with a shoe bomb, off go the shoes. If someone lights their pants on fire in the last hour and you have to keep your lap clear for that last hour. Lucky that the pants don’t go off (yet).
All that had to happen to prevent this was effective screening. Which means someone had to come up with the idea of deploying screeners to all gateway-airpots. But that didn’t happen.
That’s just laughably incompetent. Because it doesn’t take a terrorist to figure out what the reaction is going to be from the TSA. And it should.
But that involves nonlinear thinking.
ALSO: The #tsaslogans topic on Twitter is simply hilarious. Looks like crowdsourcing airport security may be a better option.
-Shlok
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