Security -vs- Privacy -vs- Surveillance

Painfully Obvious

Your free online content is not really free!

Real Security only exists in highly controlled prison-like environments.

Consider an airplane flight.

TSA is entrusted to carry out the enforcement of policy created by _____ and they to the best of their, questionable at-times, ability fithfully carry this out.

But consider what I am still allowed to bring onto a plane in my carry-on bag.

• Allowed to take on a plane
  • multiple cirgarette lighters
  • 3.2 oz of flammable perfume
  • rope/paracord/shoe laces
  • metal o-rings
  • multiple leather belts
  • a fishing rod
  • and a small brass fisher space pen

and while I am no evil MacGuyver genius - I believe those people are out there. Something along the lines of a bow and arrow created by a fishing rod. etc. But a real evil genius would still make some water activated explosive by smuggling in oil on his or her person/clothes.

• What I am not allowed to take through
  • my 3.4oz cologne
  • my heavy brass pen
  • aerosol hair spray

Consider the fact that Airports used X rays to know objectively what is in your bag. And when that is inconclusive - there is a manual handsearch