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Re: Don't spend too much time in the bathroom...


From: "Young, Keith" <Keith.Young () montgomerycountymd gov>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:59:48 -0500

Only 20 minutes... The second Nigerian man spent an hour.
Now TSA has to wake up is ten minutes or more too long...

The answer is obvious. Airplane bathroom doors should automatically
open
after 10 minutes and an alarm should sound.

Which will work until quick-release detonators (think blasting-line pull
strings) are in common use and the doors need to open after 8 seconds.
At that point, the toilets and sinks will just be moved to the center of
the aisle.

Just like we have done in computer security, the TSA is focusing too
much on blacklisting actions that are bad. Until the travel process is
redesigned, failures like this will continue...

--Keith

Keith Young, Security Official
Department of Technology Services
Montgomery County, Maryland
phone - (240) 777-2955 


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