> In Tuesday’s demonstration, Transportation Security staffers walked into one of the newly configured machines and stopped with their arms raised, as passenger being scanned are asked to do. A small video monitor near the unit’s exit displayed the results for both the passenger and the security officer operating the machine. > > Those who deliberately carried objects were detected and portrayed as generic human outlines, with regions of their body highlighted by a box indicating additional security attention was warranted. > > Those who carried no questionable objects saw a screen that…

> But Philip Baum, editor of Aviation Security International, cautioned against any knee-jerk reaction. > > “We need to have a commonsense approach to this,” he said. “There’s no point deploying huge extra layers of security and checkpoints for people to go through. > > “We have to recognize the fact that most airports are not only points of arrival and departure for passengers flying by air. They are also retail complexes, food courts, businesses that are trying to attract people in from the outside.” > > Baum argues that rather than installing more x-ray machines…

> Passengers aboard a Turkish Airlines flight from Oslo overpowered a man who tried to hijack their flight to Istanbul on Wednesday. > > Police said the man was a Turk who had demanded that the plane return to Norway. via [bbc.co.uk](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12127570)Once again, we see that security measures are never 100% full-proof, but it doesn’t matter, because passengers are now prepared to defend themselves. Now can we all please stop having to take our shoes off?…

> Kudos to the T.S.A. if it anticipated the rush and had more staff on duty (why can’t it always be that way?). But it could also have also been that air travel volumes were lighter than anticipated — perhaps because passengers were perturbed by the new procedures and were traveling by other means (or staying at home.) It would be hard to regard the new procedures as a success if that were the case, particularly given that more people bypassing air travel for road travel means [more fatalities…

> There are two different philosophies. The Israeli view is that one looks for the perpetrator, not the tool or weapon. All passengers about to board a flight are interviewed. Many in this country erroneously describe the process as “profiling,” but I think a better description would be “triage.” The Israeli view is that one does not waste time and resources on passengers who do not pose any threat to safety and security. > > [How Israelis do air security](http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/11/yeffet.air.security.israel/index.…