Security at O’Hare Airport
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Since the 9-11 attack, airport security has been a priority. There have been new innovations such as training screeners to assess facial expression and ‘backscatter’ technology, to see through clothes. While these new techniques are being implemented, some basic flaws are surfacing. CBS2 in Chicago has been doing an investigative report at O’Hare Airport:
‘The 2 Investigators have learned that 47 more employee access badges are missing, bringing the total we’ve discovered to 3,807 – the biggest security failure involving access badges ever to be exposed.
‘”Doesn’t surprise me,” said Marcia Pinkston. “I am surprised you didn’t find more.”‘
Link: More Security Breaches Found
That’s almost four thousand security badges that have been discovered missing. One wonders how many more are missing and not documented. As an increasing number of security badges become “missing,” security is undermined significantly. Has any of this documentation fallen into the wrong hands? No one knows. However, almost six years after 9-11-2001, this degree of security at one of the country’s major airports is appalling - and frightening.
Catherine Forsythe
[tags]o’hare airport, chicago, security, badges[/tags]
3 Comments
Malignedtruth
June 30th, 2007
at 7:21am
Does the airport screener system use any of the 315 Linux Distros? No? That would explain the ease of which the system is hacked, cracked.
Jeff Barr
June 30th, 2007
at 10:51am
The missing badges aren’t the scary part. The scary part is the hundreds of thousands of airport employees, mostly low-paid, many foreign nationals, who have unquestioned access to supposedly secure areas of all of our nation’s airports. These employees don’t have to pass through any sort of screening go into or out of work. Pass a (usually) simple background check, potentially with false or forged documentation, and they’ve got the run of the place, as well as admission of any item they desire along with them.
We screen TSA screeners and Airline flight crews, along with passengers, but there are literally armies of potential terrorist threats allowed onto airport property and into “secure” locations every single day.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in this case the gate’s wide open…
gfabian
July 3rd, 2007
at 5:47pm
And this is part of the same gov’t that “needed” only 24 hours to conduct backround checks of 20 million illegal aliens to put them on a path to US citizenship??
The entire Congress ought to be recalled.