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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
This sounds suspiciously like a rhetorical question. The answer cannot be "by surreptitiously breaking the law in order to embarass the law enforcement agency." It's the hacker mentality with real lives at stake.
He's not the worst guy who ever lived or anything, but he was playing with fire.
The above was your 666th post in the post-PB meltdown world. So maybe you're fucking with me here.
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He wasn't playing with fire. Your argument is that if they go soft on him, Al Qaeda will use dopes to smuggle box cutters on board planes, and if they're caught they'll get away with it because the TSA will be too stupid to realize the difference. While I concur with the latter assessment, I don't think that what this guy did increased the risks we face. The stuff he smuggled was found where he left it, right? In fact, he made us all safer by pointing to the crappiness of TSA's security procedures, which appear calculated to convince us that we're being inconvenienced so much that we must be safer. TSA should punt its adherence to searching everyone, and hire some smart people to profile and interview passengers the way the Israelis do it.
