[geeks] Dos and similar games

[William Kirkland]

On Aug 15, 2006, at 19:25, geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:26:28PM -0600, Dan Duncan wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> It's also cheaper than having to hire enough of them to cover  
>> every flight.
>
> Two possible aspects to it.
>
> 1.  You never know if one is on the plane or not, is it worth it?
>
> 2.  If they are in uniform, might they just be the initial target?
>
> -- 
> Michael Parson
> mparson at bl.org

3. The hijackers do not know if a weapon will be provided for them.