Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Someone wrote that when there's an airline accident, the FAA finds out exactly went wrong and institutes rules to make sure that it never happens again. This makes great sense when you have a highly reliable system and your (rare) problems have non-malicious causes. Air travel is so safe that finding potential accidents is really hard.

"This gives a possible explanation of why the TSA airline regulations are so boneheaded. It's not so much that the people who devise them are stupid, it's that they're stuck in the wrong mental model: accident prevention rather than counterterrorism."

-- Jeremiah Blatz, 2007-02-22