• MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Meanwhile, in Canada:

    Repeated security audits at major airports such as YYZ show repeated and regular occurrences of airside staff not getting screened for weeks at a time.

    Essentially, many airside staff don’t get screened much, but passengers get the Theatre. Recommendations from repeated audits to change this did nothing.

    CBC has a whole piece on it. Once post 911, and again years later (nothing changed).

    So many holes in airport security, it’s ridiculous when compared to the passengers’ routine denigrations.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      The security is pretty much theatre. Anyone who isn’t an idiot acting on a whim will be able to get anything (within reason) they want past security and onto a plane.

      Take a look at the stats on the number of incidents airport security has actually stopped. You see a whole bunch of “airport security stopped this number of guns/knives/etc” but 99.999999% of them were just people forgetting them in the wrong bag.

      Hell, I brought a knife onto a plane at least a half dozen times by accident, only realizing when the knife I lost months before fell out at a hotel.

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        6 months ago

        I am a “regular” flyer and a stoner and I never fail to bring with me a sample of devil’s lettuce when I’m leaving for extended period of time and never once I’ve had any issue bringing my hazardous material with me.

        One time I even embarked with a small firework in my wallet I forgot I placed there after a party and none bat an eye.

        Security level: top (not gun)