Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"And you open up the bag and you're looking for the most expedient item to find that the machine has [noticed], that the machine has asked you to find. So you're not really looking for a bomb, you're looking for the thing the machine has asked you to find in the bag. And that could be any sort of normal item. But you never, once you take that item out, you never actually check the bag again to make sure that's what the machine was looking for."

Source: Beth Pinsker, freelance writer and, until recently, TSA screener, in Wired Magazine interview, explaining why it's a bit quicker now to go through airport security [and why 'security' remains an expensive, intrusive joke --ed]. 

FMI: www.tsa.gov