"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> As some of my posts to the list over the years have shown one of the
> big problems I think we will face in the future is "trustability".
> How do you trust that you will not be betrayed and/or damaged
> by other entities whose inner workings you cannot verify.
>
> So, in memory of today's sad events I would like to challenge the
> members of the Extropian community to think long and hard about
> what ways might be used to create innovative solutions to
> terrorism that would increase trustability and personal security
> without imposing restrictions on freedoms (in other words, please,
> please lets not make it a debate about guns).
I promise. This is an issue which impacts, but is not dependent upon
guns.
The issue is that posited by the Joker in Batman I: "Who do you trust?
Hubba Hubba.. Who do you trust?"
The primary problem of trust in this world is that we are not a one
world society. We are many societies, each of which has its own internal
trust quotient toward individuals and the state. We cannot, therefore,
expect to be able to automatically trust others outside of our
societies. There does need to be trustability verification on this
score, but this does not mean that individuals within a society should
be treated as foreigners by their government. As it stands, here in the
US, our primary weakness is that we do not discriminate in our
trustability between citizen and alien. This failure results in us
trusting fellow citizens too little, resulting in social strife and
creeping domestic fascism, and in trusting foreigners too much, too
easily, resulting the security weaknesses we saw exploited in today's
attacks.
The security hole that was exploited, I believe, is that terrorist
pilots were able to penetrate airport security at four airports, with
two airlines who have demonstrated the weakest security practices. These
airlines subcontract their security to two security companies, who are
responsible for hiring and background checks to hire security personnel
working for $7.00 an hour in positions of great responsibility. It most
certainly required at least four moles working in security to allow
these individuals access to the airliners (and potentially only one)
I think the solution to this is to hold United and American Airlines, as
well as the two security companies, and the airports from which the
airplanes flew from, financially responsible for the damages of today's
attacks, for their negligence in ensuring the security of their
airlines. The pressure of this financial impact will most certainly
force all other airlines to beef their security up to professional
levels.
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