[ygd]

"It seems to me (as a non-American) that America's default response to terrorism is to deprive itself of ever-more civil liberties. This is why I believe some on HN deem TSA articles HN-worthy material."

It's not just how America would respond. Almost any country would up security measures and, as a byproduct, deprive itself of civil liberties.

[fragmede]

In the 90's, Britain was under what could truly be called terrorist attack by the (P)IRA. Civil liberties were not severely curtailed to the same extent that the Patriot act allowed.

[MaysonL]

See: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelifi...

It's not upping security, it's upping security in a way which increases safety, at minimum inconvenience to traveleres.

The US TSA bureaucracy, and its emphasis on scanning everything and everybody, and making everybody waste a lot of time, is dumb.

[irons]

Almost any country would up security measures and, as a byproduct, deprive itself of civil liberties.

That's exactly wrong:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelifi...

[hga]

Except that it sure doesn't look like the Israeli system could scale to US traffic volumes.