Pay to Bypass Airport Security... What could go wrong?
Earlier tonight, I was checking in on Facebook and I noticed this post. A friend of mine who travels often. Between this post and the comments, she revealed that she paid $85 dollars, filled out a form and went through a short interview to no longer have to suffer through the Airport Security Lines.
In years past I spent a lot of time flying and I would have done this in a flat second, for obvious reasons. However it brings up a lot of questions about Airport Security.
Who decides who can pay to avoid security?
Can they be trusted?
When will the first discrimination lawsuits be filed by those who are denied?
It is monetizing and centralizing the entire Airport Security system and seems compromised. Now, I don't think the world is crawling with people who want to blow up planes and go down with them, yet it begs the question if the security in place means anything at all, and how long will it take to unravel.
Should be continue to fund arbitrary security through Federal Funds?
Here is a link to the TSA explanation and application
I think this is a huge issue for the integrity of Airport Security, what are your thoughts?
I think there should be a central login platform, encrypted and stored decentralized that contains ALL your personal data, accessible only to YOU, inlcuding official documents, pseudonymous social network accounts, etc. But where you can choose to share certain data with other parties (like airports, border control, car rental companies, flight companies, hotel booking sites, etc), on a temporary need to know basis.
Checkin in into an airport becomes a one-click operation, no waiting whatsoever required.
So these pay to pass security solutions are a temporary evil. It will soon be a thing of the past.
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You know what they say the rich get richer and the rich also constantly benefit from having money. I think the issue that really brings up is that is was all about to money to begin with and that security was always just secondary.
If you can pay to bypass security, then the point of security is...?
I have seen some compelling evidence to show that 9/11 had no planes involved, and most planes that go down seem to be government sanctioned assassinations on single targets, so really - what is the point of airport security?
Money talks, shit walks. It's form of hidden taxes, I see it a lot here in Italy.
Don't want mandatory vaccination for your kids, fine, just pay a fine.
Get a traffic ticket, pay and get penalty points on your driver's license or pay more and don't get penalty points on your license.
Have you been cheating on steemit with facebook???!!!! Gasp! :0)
Actually people that know Steem and are still active on Facebook are making huge contributions to the Steem platform. If you isolate from the world you are not helping Steem, instead you are only enforcing the image where Steem is a very self-centered tribal community that only talks about Steem and has lost touch with the rest of the world..
Lot's of thoughts arise as I read this post.
First: I hate flying. Being an average sized person, I still feel like the seats are too small and everyone is packed in like sardines.
Second: The naked body scanners are just a way for security companies to make money off of fear. We are taught to be afraid and thus we need to have more devices that collect more and more data on us. Who are owners of the companies that make the scanners?
Third: What is the end game, the desired outcome, of all the data-mining? Is is really "just" for selling us goods and services? Hardly. Why would all this data be housed in Utah by "our" government?
Times they are a changin'......I just hope and wish that more would wake-up to the matrix we are currently living in and the direction that we are going.
P.S. Thanks for listening to my rambling. I hate flying.
I also hate flying, and I agree it has now moved into overkill, body scans and such. However, if you compromise what is there, don't you end up with the worst of both worlds? All the "Feel Ups" and none of the safety.
I no longer fly for pleasure, it just isn't pleasant.
I don't think this is a black or white issue. Sure there should be safety measures but I feel that there is an agenda being pushed to make us afraid of each other and embrace whatever the powers-that-shouldn't-be deem necessary to control us like the cattle they think we are. I don't think that the George Soro's of the world care about the common man, thus the naked scanners and the small seats in airplanes.
Again, thanks for listening to my rant. I don't fly that often, but when I do I dread it.
Flippin NUTZ! I did read somewhere recently that airport security may go to private security, that must have been what they had before the installation of the TSA . Would certainly be a good department to CUT.
Never stand behind me when going through passport checks at an airport as 9/10 times you will be randomly stuck waiting behind me.
Airport security is about spending our money on ever more technology designed to stress us and keep us scared. As you said, the world is not chock-a-block with people attempting to get bombs onto planes, bottles of water over 100ml maybe.