[geeks] Dos and similar games

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2006/08/15 Tue PM 04:02:15 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Dos and similar games

>On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:35:00PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

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>> Don't feel bad, we have security guards on most of our buses.
>
>I fail to see anything wrong or even inconvienient with that.  Maybe
>visible security guards on all airplanes would be useful.  
>
>I think the real reason that they make the sky marshals plain clothes
>here is so that the constituants won't notice to complain when the sky 
>marshalls stop being present.

Uhm, it's so the "bad guys" don't know who to take out first - so they don't know who on the plane is armed. It also allows the airlines/government to appear to cover all flights without having to put a person (or persons) on each flight. If security is conspicuous, "bad guys" know where NOT to commit crimes - if you can't tell where they are, they don't know where security is, they won't know where it's "safe" to perpetuate their evil deeds...

Lionel