Security Fix-ups

Bruce Schneier on Sneaking Items Aboard Aircraft:

There are two points worth making here. One: ridiculous rules have a way of turning people into criminals. And two: this is an example of a security failure, not a security success.

I got so fed-up at one checkpoint that i threw the pocket knife in the garbage while the security guard was pleeding with me to take it back out to the car; he really didn’t want to see it tossed. The guy actually felt bad that the “rules” were costing me something.