Comment by kube-system
1 day ago
> The mission, ostensibly, is to make air travel safe by ensuring that passengers don't bring dangerous items onto the plane.
No, it is to make it safe for any reason, which goes beyond whether or not they brought box cutters.
Ok, I'll concede that. That boils down to someone bringing something on the plane that can be used to cause trouble.
That could be... themselves.
You're right. I vaguely remember a faux hijacking (or a real hijacking but not with the intent to do harm) wherein an unarmed man caused a flight diversion to seek asylum in Italy. He entered the cockpit while the door was open for service. I don't remember the details, but now I'm very curious if identification would have resulted in successful interdiction. It certainly would not have prevented 9/11 since those perps were known to both domestic and foreign intelligence. So what do we do?
To bring it back to the root question: how does REAL ID mitigate these threats?
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