How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as a well-researched primer when airport security theatre and Israeli-style screening come up.
What it is
A Wendover Productions explainer on how airport security is designed, covering screening layers, x-ray scanning, and the contrast with Israel's profiling-based approach. It walks through the logic behind why security works the way it does.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec HopenHeyHi · 2023-04 · on “Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners”
If you actually want to be informed on the subject I highly recommend: How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security by Wendover Productions ( [this video] , 14 minutes, well researched) Doesn't appear to have any downsides, appears to be logical, effective, and necessary. Appeals to emotion not withstanding. If you have any good faith suggestions for improvement after watching this I'd be all ears.
Recommends qazqwert · 2019-01 · on “Israel airport security stole my laptop”
it's not rare in israel becuse they do have a very big terror problem... but the missing laptop is unusual and... mybe you'v had some iligal shit/... cracked software/... idk -or mybe it was just a mistake/missplacment have you asked about the laptop? btw this is a nice video i'll suggest you'd watch regarding israels airport security and oparetion... [this video]
Recommends HopenHeyHi · 2023-04 · on “Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners”
That's great that they came over to visit the beach but nobody can look into your soul and know that and sometimes people who are not so nice don't just come over to visit the beach. This presents a challenging problem. It sounds like you are under the impression that people are being inconvenienced simply out of spite or due to the discretion of some unfriendly TSA-type airport employee - nope. Understandable why you would perceive things as such but the reality is very different, there is quite a lot going on, before you even board the plane, that you don't see. Places where it really matters, like Israel, cannot afford to engage in security theatre, it is all derived by logic. How it work
Cites chii · 2019-03 · on “Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports”
These scans are theatre. Actual security is [this video] , and most people in the USA would not agree with this sort of checks.
Cites chard_slicks_ · 2020-09 · on “Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds”
I agree with the unethical part but I'm not so sure about the statement that they don't work. Check out this video [0] which talks about profiling at Ben Gurion airport. [0] [this video]