Does take off your shoes , empty your pockets and putting your laptop in a niggling plastic bin make you sense safe ? perhaps it should n’t . harmonize to the Department of Homeland Security , theTSA is doing a lousy business . Like , “ break to detect mock weapon 95 per centum of the time ” lousy .
That act issue forth from a recent internal probe that scar special Homeland Security “ Red Team ” penis against security checkpoints in a dozen of the nation ’s busy aerodrome . Out of 70 anon. tests , the TSA superintend to catch only three Red Team attempts to sneak fake weapon through aerodrome security .
It sounds uncollectible ( and it is ) but it ’s not quite as bad as you might think . Red Team members are fully brief on TSA communications protocol . They recognize everything the checkpoint look for and how they wait for it — meaning they can craft near - perfect plan to exploit the system ’s potential flaws . In possibility , the Red Team ’s architectural plan are far and above what a potential terrorist might come up with — but the TSA ’s failure to detect all of them is still completely unforgivable .
ABC reports that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson immediately implemented a series of new protocol after reading the report , but intelligibly the agency still has a ways to go . [ ABC News ]
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