It is about time that someone had the balls to state that profiling is needed but I am surprised it was someone in Finland.
But a few points:
- will profiling reduce the need to inconsistent, counterproductive and plain silly and suureal rules such as the liquids ban
- how will a security company like ISS in Finland (who are really a cleaning and office srevices company) get trained and educated security staff. Helsinki Vantaa (EFHK/HEL) security is one of the worst for their staffs behaviour to passengers though not always to crew fortunately.
- will any of this speed up security?
In the end as it has been pointed out in various security blogs (Schneier on Security is a good one) and also by various members of the US intelligence community (see the mentioned blog for a link) that airport security is done all wrong in the first place. Taking liquids and restricting things which can easily be bought airside does not help "security" at all.
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