How to completely bypass airport security in one easy step...

[Doc]

Bribe a ticket-agent.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/airlinereporte...235924.asp

On November 19, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was at Charlotte Douglas Airport testing out JetBlue's security. Their goal was to try and get an unaccompanied package onto a flight headed to Boston and unfortunately, they succeeded. An undercover TSA agent told a JetBlue ticket agent that he needed to get a package to Boston that day and would pay the agent $100.00 for helping. The agent took the $100, put it in his pocket and proceeded to follow the unknown person's instructions. The ticket agent chose a passenger's name at random, which just happened to be an unaccompanied minor, and the package went through the screening process with no problems. Although the package was harmless, the TSA pulled the package just before being loaded onto the aircraft.

[Speedy]

I'm shocked! Shocked.

[freeradical]

It's the inside job we have to worry about.

This theatre we have to go through to fly is absurd.

[Jimmypoo]

I trust the Jet Blue guy is being held at Gitmo now?

[Wags]

Private Plane, Public Menace
Wealthy travelers routinely bypass the TSA by flying on private jets. How long until al-Qaeda does the same?

By JEFFREY GOLDBERG

Excerpt:

I had been under the impression that the TSA stationed personnel at many general- aviation terminals, but it typically does not. The general-aviation industry is almost entirely “self-regulated.” The TSA has proposed that it be allowed to impose certain security measures on private jets, such as requiring operators to ensure that their passengers are not on the no-fly list, but for now the agency screens only those Americans who cannot afford to fly on private planes.


The Atlantic Monthly

[Mini 9]

As mentioned before "Security Theater" (or Theatre"

[DRR]

Thanks to the TSA for revealing and publicizing a well known loophole. Anyone with real malicious intent though wouldn't bother bribing a ticket agent, who obviously had to put the package through screening. They'd just bribe a TSA agent.

[Mr645]

TSA is there to try to make the flying public feel safer about flying, they have little to do with actual safety

[Inactive]

Great, now we're going to have to take our socks off too!

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