Fixing Airport Security

Behind on my reading, I only now saw this outstanding post by Bruce Schneier about what should be done to improve airport security. His plan:

This would be my real answer: "Establish accountability and transparency for airport screening." And if I had another sentence: "Airports are one of the places where Americans, and visitors to America, are most likely to interact with a law enforcement officer - and yet no one knows what rights travelers have or how to exercise those rights."

Schneier wants transparency about the no-fly and watch lists. He argues that there should be clear and explicit rules about what passengers can expect from TSA at checkpoints. He calls for "airport security [to] be solely about terrorism, and not a general-purpose security checkpoint to catch everyone from pot smokers to deadbeat dads."

That's an outstanding plan. Sadly, it is hard to imagine much of it being implemented.