Originally Posted by
BRUpax
Fair enough, but that was 1983, loooong before the present day security paranoia began.
Not sure I see your logic here. However I can say that today, almost 30 years after a successful bombing of a TGV, their is still NO security before boarding a TGV at Geneva. I can't comment on Eurostar, I've never used it. What happened then could easily happen now.
Which begs the question, if aviation security was relaxed (say only a random 10% of passengers checked at all), would their be an increase in incidents? If there were, would any of them be successful? The shoe bomber wasn't successful, the undi-bomber wasn't successful, the recent 'hijack attempt' on Turkish wasn't successful.