alt Hacker NewsHow many man hours and how much money have we wasted over security theater at airports? Has it been a worthwhile trade off?
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No successful terrorist attacks on planes going to/from western countries after 9/11/2001, that's a pretty good record. Maybe we can't prove that the security theater was responsible for that, but still, the only planes that were bombed after 9/11/2001 were inside Russia or going from Egypt to Russia.
How many man hours and how much money have we wasted over SREs at <tech company>? Has it been a worthwhile trade off?
- Half kidding but this is what a lot of CEOs/CTOs think, SRE is one of the least invested skills because it is so difficult to prove that they are worthwhile. Similarly they are invested into AFTER a major incident.
Depends who the 'we' is. It worked out great for the airports; increased drink sales means increased rent for airport shops.
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Don't forget to account for the risk we added by creating places where hundreds of people line up outside the security check. [0]
[0] https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2016/05/out-of-line-how... -- "The study also identified an easy way to make people a less attractive target — improve ticketing and security operations so that crowds of people aren't waiting in line."