Security Plan Designed by People Bad at Math
See, the problem with random searches of people in airports is that it’s wholly ineffective. What are the odds of finding someone carrying an explosive in a carry-on that is undetectable by a the x-ray machine using random searches? Well, if TSA searches 1 in 1000 people that come through security and a terrorist has cleverly disguised the explosive device as a laptop, cell phone, hair brush, camera, music box with a cute little dancing ballerina, or anything other than an easily recognizable tangled mess of wires and explosive putty, it’s practically 0. It could be as high as me winning the lottery (I don’t buy tickets).
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