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‘Passenger Behavior’ Key to Catching Airline Terrorists – Defense/Middle East – Israel News – Israel National News

“You have to actually look for the things that are dangerous, and not just scan everybody. This calls for a total change in approach to the transportation security issue.”

– Rafi Sela, a security consultant at Ben Gurion International Airport

According to the Israelis, who – as you may know – have some experience in dealing with terrorists, relying on privacy-invading scanning machines won’t keep us safer. Neither will patty down every brown-skinned male who just *might* be Muslim.

Eye contact, checking the behavior of folks in your airport, and basically NOT TAKING THE LAZY WAY OUT are the keys to defeating terrorist acts in most public venues.

But no, we’ve got to depend on gadgets instead of skill. I swear, I work in technology and realize that the Mark One Eyeball and the brain behind it is still capable of being better than the best sniffer, camera, or X-Ray nudie picture machine we can build.

What I said at 3 minutes after midnight on the first… | Neil Gaiman’s Journal

Some fantastic words to welcome in the new year:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.