Comments on: The ideal airport

By: french derek

french derek — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:32:24 +0000

Jon, there’s a very intersting piece on thruthout.com, by Ray McGovern and Cleen Rowley (two ex-CIA people) headed “Counter-Terrorism in a Shambles: Why?”

I read it and thought of you …..!

By: Cat

Cat — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:44:24 +0000

xkcd is my bible

Slovakia Airport presumably doesn’t win on the best security front: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/slovak-air-security-test-goes-very-wrong/

By: André Feldhof

André Feldhof — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:22:30 +0000

@Jon: yeah it had a time machine and she apparently got all the data back. Happy ending of a shocking story

By: french derek

french derek — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:16:18 +0000

The mention of the baggage “hell” at the opening of Heathrow 5 (Wikipedia) is the important point. BAA and BA have no idea of how to manage staff. They just moved people, without training or advance visits, etc, and expected them to perform “as usual” in a completely different environment.

I can imagine the same would happen if BAA tried to implement an Israeli-style security system. One, maybe two half/one hour lectures (note, no interaction, nor questions – just lectures): and, “OK guys, go do it”.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:53:12 +0000

@Cat – Ace! Doesn’t quite beat my favourite XKCD – http://xkcd.com/627/

@André – Ouch… But “We were able to extract the hard drive, seemingly unscaved”! and it was a Mac that would have Time Machine…?

By: André Feldhof

André Feldhof — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:47:28 +0000

@Cat: this is how they handle it in Israel: http://bit.ly/6drK9s

By: Cat

Cat — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:43:50 +0000

Best response at security: http://xkcd.com/651/

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:58:08 +0000

Very fair point about the cost.

Now that would be an interesting one: UK airports receiving star ratings for their security?