Flight 253: "The system worked"?

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famousringo said:
Homeland Security's system seems a lot like copyright DRM to me: It mostly increases costs on legitmate users rather than impeding criminal behavior.

To a large degree I agree...security is at least as much about making people feel safe as it is about actually making them safe.  Some argue it has more to do with appearances than anything else, but I'm not quite that cynical...though I'm probably not far off as of late =P