{"id":419,"date":"2007-07-30T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/30\/behind-the-security-theater-curtains-schneier-interviews-hawley\/"},"modified":"2007-07-30T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T17:54:38","slug":"behind-the-security-theater-curtains-schneier-interviews-hawley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/07\/30\/behind-the-security-theater-curtains-schneier-interviews-hawley\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the (Security Theater) Curtains:  Schneier Interviews Hawley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top thinkers in security &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/schneier.com\/\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> &#8211; interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsa.gov\/who_we_are\/people\/bios\/kip_hawley_bio.shtm\">Kip Hawley<\/a>, head of the Transportation Safety Administration.   Kip Hawley, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/09\/27\/tsa_calling_kip_hawl.html\">less than popular with thinking travelers<\/a>, gives us special insight into TSA wisdom:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what would the justification be for prohibiting lip gloss, nasal spray, etc? There was none, other than for our own convenience and the sake of a simple explanation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I sure am glad that the TSA wasn&#8217;t <em>inconvenienced<\/em>.  Lord, can you imagine the stress of <em>inconvenience<\/em>, in an airport?  It gets better.  In response to Schneier asking Hawley why, if our liquids are so dangerous, they&#8217;re thrown into a giant barrel in the middle of the security area, Hawley tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the TSO throws your liquids in the trash, they don&#8217;t find you a threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then if I&#8217;m not a threat, <em>why did you just throw my )(*#@#@ Diet Coke away<\/em>?  I give Kip Hawley credit for submitting to an interview with Schneier, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiphawleyisanidiot.com\/\">he&#8217;s still an idiot<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Read the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/conversation_wi_4.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the top thinkers in security &#8211; Bruce Schneier &#8211; interviews Kip Hawley, head of the Transportation Safety Administration. Kip Hawley, who is less than popular with thinking travelers, gives us special insight into TSA wisdom: So what would the justification be for prohibiting lip gloss, nasal spray, etc? There was none, other than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}