Airport security guards who mistook a bottle of perfume for a chemical weapon have become one of the winners of a competition to find the world's most stupid security measure. The informal competition was run by civil liberties group Privacy International which wanted to find the daftest security measure introduced in the wake of the September 11 attack. Other winners included security staff who forced a woman to drink the breast milk she was planning to feed her baby and the Australian government for spending millions to warn against phantom terror threats. Privacy International said the competition attracted more than 5,000 nominations from 35 countries.
There are a lot of countries that have implemented very bad security policies. This is really dangerous they give an impression to people that they are secure whilst actually providing no real security. They don't actually find the bad guys but just end up harassing and alienating the innocent.
| At the same time, let's beware of organizations like Privacy International pouring vats of boiling scorn on the hapless civil servants who're actually tasked with keeping Krazed Killers from slaughtering large numbers of us. Think what a good time they could have had with rules against men taking shaving kits with razors in them in their carry-on luggage prior to 9-11. I'm sure there's lots of dumbassery in the ranks of those implementing security measures. I'm also sure that reasonable security measures today are a lot more stringent than reasonable security measures were two years ago. I say correct the stupid things or the things that aren't effective, but keep at it when it comes to trying to anticipate and counter what the Bad Guys are going to do. |
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