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Title: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: CypherNinja on June 02, 2015, 06:31:00 PM
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In one test an undercover agent was stopped after setting off an alarm at a magnetometer, but TSA screeners failed to detect a fake explosive device that was taped to his back during a follow-on pat down.
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...then-TSA administrator John Pistole, described the Red Team as “super terrorists,” who know precisely which weaknesses to exploit.
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 :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: roo_ster on June 02, 2015, 06:48:59 PM
"You can't professionalize if you don't federalize.”
----Tom Daschle

Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: SADShooter on June 02, 2015, 07:00:57 PM
"You can't professionalize if you don't federalize.”
----Tom Daschle



Inigo Montoya/"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."/Inigo Montoya
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: Ron on June 02, 2015, 07:23:58 PM
95% success rate in teaching US citizens how to give up their rights and accept being treated like cattle.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: Firethorn on June 02, 2015, 07:29:00 PM
So I'm a 'super-terrorist'?  I flew at least 3 times with 3 throwing knives in my backpack that I'd forgotten about.  It's one of those massive laptop backpacks with pockets all over the place.  But in 3 flights they didn't notice 3 steel throwing knives in a holster stuck in a pocket of a backpack dutifully run through the x-ray machine.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: griz on June 03, 2015, 08:05:48 AM
It's a shame that the standard response to this news, at least from what I saw on the news, is that we need to spend more money and resources on fixing the TSA.  Nobody seemed to consider that the TSA was a step in the wrong direction.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: roo_ster on June 03, 2015, 09:36:06 AM
It's a shame that the standard response to this news, at least from what I saw on the news, is that we need to spend more money and resources on fixing the TSA.  Nobody seemed to consider that the TSA was a step in the wrong direction.

Dang! Our program is 95% ineffective.  This is an obvious sign we need to do more of the same.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: KD5NRH on June 03, 2015, 09:56:12 AM
So I'm a 'super-terrorist'?  I flew at least 3 times with 3 throwing knives in my backpack that I'd forgotten about.

Same thing with White House and Pentagon tours carrying a day pack that I hadn't realized a fair sized camp knife was still tucked into.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: makattak on June 05, 2015, 08:57:15 AM
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 :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm:

http://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881

Actual footage of TSA Administrator John Pistole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDmfnzr3594
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: Scout26 on June 05, 2015, 09:58:26 AM
Didn't they also have a similiar failure rate a few years back when they ran the same tests?

Didn't they allegdelly "fix" the "problems" back then also?
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: SADShooter on June 05, 2015, 01:17:36 PM
Didn't they also have a similiar failure rate a few years back when they ran the same tests?

Didn't they allegdelly "fix" the "problems" back then also?

They "fixed the glitch".
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: DustinD on June 05, 2015, 07:25:41 PM
My step mother was a TSA screener back when the agency first formed. She was able to carry full sized blue guns and large fake explosives through security, while wearing her id card, without it being detected when doing penetration testing. The TSA agents usually couldn't even spot their own coworkers playing the role of terrorist even though they worked together on different shifts. She left after several months of very low quality coworker antics and the like. She has no respect for that job.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: Pb on June 06, 2015, 09:04:34 AM
Imagine what you would do if you hired a private security company that failed 95% of the time.   ;/
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: Fly320s on June 06, 2015, 09:23:55 AM
I'm sure glad the TSA keeps that 4oz of toothpaste out of grandma's bag.
Title: Re: TSA 95% failure rate in DHS test
Post by: never_retreat on June 07, 2015, 09:26:58 PM
Better raise there budget. [barf]