Five months ago, a mentally disturbed man entered Laguardia Airport with a fake bomb attached to his body. The security officers tackled and subdued the wanne-be terrorist and then looked for the footage from the surveillance camera. It turns out the groggy cameras were broken, pointing the wrong direction, or had very grainy footage. Oy! [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Airports'
Newark Airport surveillance cameras don't record
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Failure
Laguardia Airport security cameras missed "bomb"
August 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Public Surveillance Failure
Bruce Schneier coined the term security theater. Security theater is defined as, "Ostensible security measures which have little real influence on security whilst being publicly visible and designed to demonstrate to the lesser-informed that countermeasures have been considered".
Philip Messing and Murray Weiss from the NY Post wrote about an "fake bomb" incident at [...]
