TSA to extend 'risk-based security' system to screening luggage

[unhappycamper]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tsa-risk-based-security-baggage-20140605-story.html



TSA to extend 'risk-based security' system to screening luggage
By Hugo Martin
June 8, 2014

The Transportation Security Administration has been moving away from a system that assumes all passengers, including children and the elderly, pose the same security risk.

For example, the TSA now operates PreCheck lines at 115 airports that let passengers who pass a background check zip through without removing coats, belts, shoes or removing laptop computers from carrying cases.

Now the TSA plans to apply its so-called risk-based security system to the screening of luggage. Under the current TSA screening system, every bag gets the same level of scrutiny.

As part of a $2.2-billion plan over the next five years, the TSA says it wants to adopt a system that can identify the risk level of each bag based on information about its owner. The luggage of passengers deemed high risk would get a more thorough screening than other bags.

[customerserviceguy]

1. Good

Maybe they'll stop fucking with the luggage I ship from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast about two times a year, bringing back the really good craft brews and wines from that region. I have a way of wrapping the bottles that seems to keep them safe from the luggage handlers, but if rewrapped makes bottles vulnerable to breakage.

I've always wondered, since my luggage can be tied firmly to my name, and they should be able to track my flying patterns, why haven't they just saved time and effort and NOT unwrapped then poorly rewrapped eleven bottles of Pinot Noir?

[liberal N proud]

2. I traveled with my golf clubs last week

Every time I fly with my clubs, they check them. As I was also traveling on business, I needed to place my clothes in with my clubs. They really make a mess of clothes in with golf clubs. On the way home, I spread my dirty underwear across the top of the clubs just because they inadvertently dropped something from my bag on the outbound trip.