Ten weapons that you can build INSIDE an airport

[thewayne]

Whee!

A security researcher had a thought: what could you build that would be dangerous/deadly/destructive based on materials that you could buy inside the security barrier of an airport, using a multitool that was approved by the TSA?

The results are not pleasant: a blunderbuss shotgun, nunchucks, a spiked mace, and a suitcase bomb that took one and a half fire extinguishers to put out. He notified the TSA on four occasions before publishing and was thanked, but they never said they were doing anything. He was visited by some FBI agents and had a pleasant discussion, and that was about that.

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/terminal-cornucopia/?viewall=true

Comments

[silveradept]

Wonderful. Improvised weaponry using "safe" objects, and the TSA seems rather uninterested. Can we finally stop with the theater and make them engage in real security?

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

But real security would cost more money and that would increase the deficit, or something like that! And it still wouldn't be tremendously effective.

The effective approach is to: armor cockpit doors, flight crew is sealed in the cockpit before passengers load, and all passengers and luggage is screened for weapons and explosives. Then increase intelligence work to stop threats before they get to the airport, because if you stop them at the airport, you've failed.

[silveradept]

Sounds suspiciously like real security to me.