-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Declan wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas on implementing a more libertarian approach to airport security technology and policy? For example, if someone asked you to contribute to a policy point paper to brief the White House, what would you recommend?
That they don't waste their time?
Nobody in DC is going to want to take a libertarian approach to airport security at the best of times, let alone right now.
Grrr. I know. But making the effort to put some viable alternatives on the table is preferable to watching it all go to hell without so much as squeaking a peep. Sure, it's a given that people are going to do something; if we can pack the range of options with more freedom-friendly alternatives, maybe they'll help crowd out the disasterously statist ones. Maybe. And if nothing else, at least I'll know I squeaked my peep, damn it... Good ideas about private sector security practices, but does anyone have any suggestions that particularly pertain to technology that might serve to slow up the biometrics bandwagon? Deperessingly enough, that's the way it seems to be going, and I reallly don't see a way out of it. *** "The two contenders met, with all their troops, on the field of Camlan to negotiate. Both sides were fully armed, and desperately suspicious that the other side was going to try some ruse or stratagem. The negotiations were going along smoothly until one of the knights was stung by an asp, and drew his sword to kill the reptile. The others saw the sword being drawn and immediately fell upon each other. A tremendous slaughter ensued. The chronicle is quite specific about the point that the slaughter was excessive chiefly because the battle took place without preparations or premeditation." - --Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl8EARECAB8FAjuqcfYYHGF1dG8zMDEwOTRAaHVzaG1haWwuY29tAAoJEKadvsVlUK4P +H4An0JaHHY/wD9Am5Gk4UzKxZ+TmEY4AJ4yhUhXeFpT5ZRudsqkEATXmQtcaw== =q25R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----