Experts agree.VMI77 wrote:At best, the TSA is security theater, but I think other purposes are conditioning and making money for the politically connected selling "security" and all the paraphernalia that goes with it, like big expensive scanners. The metal detector market was saturated, so now we've got scanners. As a bonus, they've conditioned a large part of the population to being scanned and groped to ease acceptance when they starting rolling the new scanners out at bus and train stations and shopping malls.
'How many times in the history of aviation have the scanners and security procedures that currently cause such huge anger and inconvenience actually found explosives in baggage or on a passenger?' Sela asks.
The answer, shockingly, is zero.