Robyn Ironside reporting on the Australian equivalent (or I assume) of the TSA
>One senior executive said in his experience, the officers were expensive window-dressing.
>”When you add the body scanners, the ritual humiliation of old ladies with knitting needles and the farcical air marshals, it all adds up to billions of dollars to prevent what? A politician being called soft on terror, that’s what,” he said.
Sounds about right.
[via Bruce Schneier]