This is something we handle really, really badly. One bad thing happens one time (like a failed shoe bomb), and so everybody forever-more has to be permanently inconvenienced every day.
Whatever the response to this incident is, I hope (and doubt) that it will also balance the CHANCE of this happening against the huge cost and inconvenience of making it "impossible" to ever happen again.
We all know that 100% and "impossible" is not going to work, and we all know that lame "for show" security measures are a huge waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere.
The question that needs to be asked and will not is: what would be the most best positive impact for that same amount of money?
It won't be asked because it's a hard question and people are scared of hard questions.
Whatever the response to this incident is, I hope (and doubt) that it will also balance the CHANCE of this happening against the huge cost and inconvenience of making it "impossible" to ever happen again.
We all know that 100% and "impossible" is not going to work, and we all know that lame "for show" security measures are a huge waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere.
The question that needs to be asked and will not is: what would be the most best positive impact for that same amount of money?
It won't be asked because it's a hard question and people are scared of hard questions.
Better make a Space Corps instead.