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While I'm thinking about security stupitidy ...

On the drive home I thought of several ways to photograph the Baltimore World Trade Center without being conspicuous doing so, and what other directions I'd want to photograph if I were planning to do damage there ... it seems to me that to plan a 9/11 style attack, you'd want blueprints of the building more than photographs, and you'd want photos (and maps) of the approaches to the building, not of the building itself! Of course, if you were to plan a different type of attack, you'd want different intel, but I didn't hear about them watching for people pointing cameras away from the WTC...

And another example of Looking Like You're Doing Something without doing it came up in conversation with the ... (uh, three chevrons on his sleeve -- is that a sergeant?) on the way back to my car: the last time I was on a plane, there were all the restrictions against nail clippers and such, but they served my drink in an aluminum can. Fold the empty back and forth a couple of times, and it tears in half to become a pair of knives. They gave me the can, but they prohbited nail clippers?

If you're going to implement policies that get in my way, PLEASE make those policies actually do some good!