{"id":66,"date":"2010-02-13T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T14:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2019-07-23T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T09:51:45","slug":"aviation-security-theatre-takes-a-new-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviationadvocacy.aero\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Aviation Security Theatre takes a new meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"And a turn for the worse.\u00a0 News this week that a Bollywood star was asked to sign a print-out of his body scan image was not really what the doctor ordered for those trying to increase airport security measures – whether or not such a move is actually going to, or indeed, has even a chance of, improving safety.\r\n\r\nLike the image of the actor, there are a few things that need to be clear here – first, do these machines make things more secure, or just more theatrical, and secondly, what about the balance between security and safety?\r\n\r\nLooking at the first, there is a chance, not a certainty, that the machines would have stopped the last attempted bombing.\u00a0 That says nothing about the next bombing.\u00a0 What it might do is make the security queue the new target.\u00a0 We now work very hard to make sure that we have a target rich environment that any terrorist with a working sense of irony might just find attractive.\u00a0 Perhaps it is lucky that irony is not a vital pre-requisite for the role.\r\n\r\nAs to the data issues – stand by.\u00a0 Europe has made clear that it intends to stand and fight on this one.\u00a0 Europe is not going to give ground on financial data held by SWIFT, so why should it give ground on other data?\r\n\r\nThis one is game on.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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