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April 19, 2005

what sin city can teach tom ridge   (link)

http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1397,1563533,00.asp
For decades, no city has attracted more dubious characters into its buildings than Las Vegas. The lure of quick scores has made Sin City the most vigilant and diligent user of advanced surveillance, identification, background-checking and security technologies. If domestic security were prosecuted as aggressively as casino security, the terrorists that took down the World Trade Center towers might well have been caught. After all, several of them were in Las Vegas as late as August 2001. Here's what Tom Ridge and counterparts still could learn.

I say fuck Tom Ridge, airlines should be the ones implementing these security measures.

Posted by yargevad at April 19, 2005 11:58 AM


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