I feel like those kind of policies are the way of the future. There is no other way at this time.
For military, yes. For civil, that's going a bit too far into the dystopian realm.
For military, yes. For civil, that's going a bit too far into the dystopian realm.
>that's going a bit too far into the dystopian realm.
I expect you'd say the exact same thing. And yet here we are. :(
People will get used to any degrading inconvenience if you claim it's for their own good and are willing to pay a lot of money to get the initial momentum going.
I think part of that is the fact that the TSA is so bad at their jobs that it feels like a joke going through it. The worst part is that they know that they are a joke -- they freely admit that they miss between 70%-80% of weapons passing through.
Growing up without something really makes you not know what you're missing; if you don't know what you're missing, it won't feel so awful when you don't have it.
A tiger born in a cage who experiences nothing but being fed every now will behave and feel very much worse than a free one. Children who were never treated with respect and never saw anyone else treated with respect don't suffer less harm in their development just because they don't know the difference.
I think at some very basic level, privacy is an obligatory requirement of becoming an individual person. An important part of the person grows when reflecting, when being alone with one's conscience, that's just as necessary as facing others. If you get all of either and none of the other, there's going to be a price.
Or take lead for example, if we increased our average exposure by a lot, that wouldn't mean that it now doesn't damage our central nervous system and organs anymore, not even for those who never knew lower levels of exposure. You can have the negative consequences without awareness of what is going on, and without any means to make it better.
A lot of the pressures already get relieved by consumerism at best, cruelty towards victims and identification with abusers at worst -- instead of being channeled towards the causes, it gets channeled towards what will make it worse. I think the rock bottom of that would a world unrecognizable even to Edgar Allan Poe.
The problem with privacy is not that people try to take it away. It's that most people don't care.
So to my thinking it isn't even the dystopian aspect of big brother watching and prodding, it's the further disgust of big brother separating the haves and have nots. Some animals are more equal than others.
And here's the kicker, you can get TSA pre by paying for premium seats. At this point having non-pre passengers having to take their laptops, shoes and jackets off is just a way to inconvenience us and has nothing to do with security.
Don't forget that getting TSA Pre involves an in-person background check interview (complete with fingerprinting). There's no escape; you just get to decide if you want to pay to have a "not a criminal" permanent file created for you, or be treated like a criminal for free, repeatedly and in small doses.
Yeah, it feels really different.
Why no one set off a bomb in a TSA cattle line I cannot understand. USA built a perfect target. I assume the TSA is some sort of jobs program but I cannot understand who benefits from it.
Those contract workers come from giant firms like Aramark.
Last time I flew in Australia domestic flights allowed non-passengers up to the waiting area, yes.
Or cancelling flights for 'bad weather' reason, when all other flights departed just fine from the airport - in this case, airline doesn't have to compensate anything (freakin' Easyjet - I realized I am not rich enough and don't have enough extra vacation to use such a crappy random-quality services).
They distributed us and our luggage across a couple of planes flying out to Vienna.
My luggage arrived on an earlier flight and had to hear from the Austrian police, while I explained that it was Lufthansa's own doing.
It happens all the time that bags get to a flight that the passenger misses and passengers get to a flight that bags miss. Not remotely unusual. It's happened to me recently too.
It actually literally happened to me in November 2001, even for an international flight: I missed my flight due to a 3-hour line at MDW, but my luggage had already boarded. I was assured by everyone concerned that it would be offloaded, but it flew ahead, and was (somewhat miraculously) still waiting for me at the luggage claim when I got there over 12 hours later.
Essentially you ask their service desk for a companion pass and tbeu run your ID and print you our a ticket to go through security. I use it because I have family that do not speak English test visits me and I walk them to their gate...but if you just want a hug you can, they don't need a reason to issue one.
But I understand what you are saying, and the ability to be at the gate to drop off or meet domestic passengers brought back old memories.
Buying something in the duty free shop, only to have them take it away at the next airport on connecting flights.
On some flights they don't even serve drinks anymore (unless you pay). Great recipe for dehydration.
Seats are so cramped that more and more people suffer from thrombosis after flying.
There's no space for your hand luggage because the airline charges extra for checked baggage and everyone takes the biggest suitcase they are allowed to take on the plane.
Ridiculous forms you need to fill out online (hoping you don't fall for a scam website), where you can pay only by credit card (not so common in many countries), just to fly through a country that is visa free? Flying via US or Canadian airports has become a major hassle...
Flying used to be different.
I remember that on one flight you could just walk to the front, and watch the pilots fly the plane through the open cockpit door.
Yeah, it was. Expensive.
Robert Gorden in The Rise and Fall of American Growth:
surprisingly, the period of most rapid decline in the real price of air travel occurred before the first flight of a jet plane. As shown in figure 11–10, the price of air travel relative to other goods and services declined rapidly from 1940 to 1960, declined at a slower rate from 1960 to 1980, and has experienced no decline at all in its relative price between 1980 and 2014. The growth rate of passenger miles traveled has mirrored the rate of change of the relative price except with the opposite sign, because lower prices stimulate the demand for any good or service.
Flights that don't serve free drinks tend to be (at least in my experience) SUPER cheap budget airlines. In the bygone age of luxurious leisurely air travel, you weren't flying from San Francisco to San Diego for $50 or from Paris to Barcelona for 30€.
If you're dehydrated tell a hostess, free water will be provided (costs them a lot less than being sued).
And sadly, that's the only change that matters. Cockpits are now closed and locked.
I remember that on one flight you could just walk to the front, and watch the pilots fly the plane through the open cockpit door
I recall a trip in the late 1990s flying Aur Canada (maybe YYZ-SFO) and while in Canadian airspace, I was invited in right behind the copilot to hang out for 20 minutes or so. I was surprised how much air traffic could be seen just with the naked eye.
This happened to me in 2007. Arrived at a regional airport at 6am bleary eyed and without my wallet. Had to jump through some hoops and I assume some regulations might have been bent/broken but I made my flight. Someone made a judgment call and waved me through.
The safest way to deliver a message will be on the beach, face to face. And a random uber courier is going to be more secure than electronic communication.
probably because they know what one is capable off when able to access/compromise given devices.
Destroying the devices might go a bit far, but there are plenty of jobs that require things like phones going into a drawer before a shift starts. Not everyone is always on all the time.
Not sure if it's apocryphal, but I heard a company in Seattle (Starbucks?) had a policy of no visible tattoos. At some point there wasn't enough people to hire and they overturned the policy.
I can see it playing out both ways.
The vast majority of companies had this policy up until about ~2005.
I still remember being extremely surprised the first time I saw an employee with a nose ring working at CVS (around ~2005).
It honestly frustrates me that so many of my friends and family can't fathom this. They're all on their phones 24/7 and can't seem to handle the fact that my job requires me to (from their perspective) ignore them for eight-to-ten hours a day.
Hell, back before mobiles it wasn't a problem to only call someone after hours, otherwise you'd get an answering machine.
They don't destroy the devices, but all travel phones/laptops are "burners" and get given away instead of ever used for work again.
https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-19/dc-19-presentations/...
(Note slide 116 there - about 7 up from the end: "Attacking the OS kernel")
https://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2099616/black-hat-charlie-mi...
http://www.karosium.com/2016/08/smbusb-hacking-smart-batteri...
Check out: https://www.malwaretech.com/2015/04/hard-disk-firmware-hacki...
The devices aren't given away however, they're just wiped and reused as burners. Not 100% secure as a nation state would have access to BIOS rootkits but it's better than nothing.
(chucking a random assortment of straws on top of your laptop then taking a photo, with the idea that it will be more difficult/time consuming/impossible to recreate exactly like in the photo).
Also - the Australian Government banned the NBNCo from using any Huawei gear in out National Broadband Network. Sadly that's _probably_ either just racist political point scoring, or effective lobbying (or outright bribery) from the non-Chinese based network gear companies - rather than any real intent to improve security based on evidence from people/organisations capable of making that sort of determination...
Tape on phone screens and always with someone(me).
Although I feel like social engineering is really the easy way in. "forgetting ID" if you were a cute girl or young kid would be too easy.