Casual reminder: Materials such as magnesium or PETN are perfect for smuggling through airport security. Reason being, they only show up as an anorganic material in the x-ray thanks to their density. They lack any sort of smell that dogs could detect as well. Israel and Russia have used both of these successfully for terrorist attacks in the past, all of the explosives have been smuggled successfully through the security theater. Israel sent pagers with 2g of PETN in the batteries to Hezbollah and Russia wanted to get a magnesium explosive onto an DHL aeroplane to make it detonate during flight.
In both of these cases, the airport “security” did absolutely nothing to stop this. Better empty your bags everyone, because you are the security risk. Once you start allowing this type of nonsense, it will stick around forever.
Edit: I should mention, while the explosives for the Russian terrorist attack successfully got through airport security, because of a delay in loading the aeroplane, it never got on it and instead detonated in the container on the ground, luckily.
And also, if someone wants to come at me with some safety-security nonsense, this is all public knowledge. This has happened factually.
Wouldn’t ms require actual mass of material? Volatiles, sure, but how many magnesium ions do we have free floating that doesn’t have an organic source?
I’m doubtful that this would solve anything, because for example in the case of Israel, the explosives went through multiple independent security theatres, and the PETN still successfully arrived at the victims. Like, if it happens once, okay, maybe it’s a fluke, but if it happens multiple times throughout the supply chain and every single time it’s A-okay, that’s a problem. Israel heavily relied on regular commercial transport for their bombs. There were countless instances where they could have been stopped, but they weren’t. And that is a worrying signal.
And even if all explosives would be detected with perfect accuracy, from now on, it still would be vulnerable to other points of attack. Just pay off a throwaway goon squad, let them smuggle ceramic weapons in their trousers into an aeroplane, and there you go. And I do believe Mossad and the FSB can come up with better ideas than that. IMO, there needs to be a more effective alternative, than this security theater nonsense.
Edit: And the reason why I’m against it is not only because it has been disproven so many times that it’s impossible to enumerate. It’s also the principle of “guilty until proven innocent”, that is slowly but surely infesting our society.
Casual reminder: Materials such as magnesium or PETN are perfect for smuggling through airport security. Reason being, they only show up as an anorganic material in the x-ray thanks to their density. They lack any sort of smell that dogs could detect as well. Israel and Russia have used both of these successfully for terrorist attacks in the past, all of the explosives have been smuggled successfully through the security theater. Israel sent pagers with 2g of PETN in the batteries to Hezbollah and Russia wanted to get a magnesium explosive onto an DHL aeroplane to make it detonate during flight.
In both of these cases, the airport “security” did absolutely nothing to stop this. Better empty your bags everyone, because you are the security risk. Once you start allowing this type of nonsense, it will stick around forever.
Edit: I should mention, while the explosives for the Russian terrorist attack successfully got through airport security, because of a delay in loading the aeroplane, it never got on it and instead detonated in the container on the ground, luckily.
And also, if someone wants to come at me with some safety-security nonsense, this is all public knowledge. This has happened factually.
TSA is moving away from ion mobility detection to mass spec detection. Mass specs are great at detecting it.
Wouldn’t ms require actual mass of material? Volatiles, sure, but how many magnesium ions do we have free floating that doesn’t have an organic source?
Also ms is expensive af. Tax dollars folks.
I’m doubtful that this would solve anything, because for example in the case of Israel, the explosives went through multiple independent security theatres, and the PETN still successfully arrived at the victims. Like, if it happens once, okay, maybe it’s a fluke, but if it happens multiple times throughout the supply chain and every single time it’s A-okay, that’s a problem. Israel heavily relied on regular commercial transport for their bombs. There were countless instances where they could have been stopped, but they weren’t. And that is a worrying signal.
And even if all explosives would be detected with perfect accuracy, from now on, it still would be vulnerable to other points of attack. Just pay off a throwaway goon squad, let them smuggle ceramic weapons in their trousers into an aeroplane, and there you go. And I do believe Mossad and the FSB can come up with better ideas than that. IMO, there needs to be a more effective alternative, than this security theater nonsense.
Edit: And the reason why I’m against it is not only because it has been disproven so many times that it’s impossible to enumerate. It’s also the principle of “guilty until proven innocent”, that is slowly but surely infesting our society.