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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
The execution seems to include a little trial-and-error -- policies that are announced and then hashed out over a little bit of time. This is hardly the first time anyone has complained about the TSA going overboard. Remember when no one was allowed to bring water on the plane? Eventually, that got worked out in a way that imposes relatively little hassle for (hopefully) substantially improved security.
The TSA has to balance privacy and security, plus other interests like cost. It has to do this in a context where the threats are shifting and evolving (as are the nature of privacy and cost concerns).
If anyone thinks that they could develop policies that score perfectly on both competing concerns, well, that's probably the same person who thinks that he can eliminate the deficit solely by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
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While I don't expect perfection on day one, I think that you're more tolerant of trial and error than I am. Having hired/managed enough people in my life in disparate jobs and industries, I can do a quick once over of the TSA personnel at most, if not all, airports that I have been in, and surmise, in my subjective analysis, that at base line there's a competency problem that's going to lead to a grossly inefficient trial and error process.
