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How Airport Security Is Designed

Wendover Productions · Explainer · 14 min · 2018 · YouTube title: How to Design Impenetrable Airport Security
Why it's here

HN commenters point to it as a well-researched primer when airport security theatre and Israeli-style screening come up.

What it covers

A Wendover Productions explainer on how airport security is designed, covering screening layers, x-ray scanning, and the contrast with Israel's profiling-based approach. It walks through the logic behind why security works the way it does.