[luckylion]

How did it change?

It's cheaper now, it's easier to pull off remotely, but most airports already were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. It feels like the primary mechanism that protected civilian airports is that the weapons you'd use aren't easy to get, and states didn't want to supply their sponsored terror groups with that kind of weaponry because it'd be dangerously close to an act of war and very hard to deny.

Individually, you were never safe by default. Your safety depends on not being an interesting target.

[euroderf]

> Individually, you were never safe by default. Your safety depends on not being an interesting target.

Hello, cyberpunk future. Imagine Luigi with Ukraine's strike capabilities. 10 years from now? 5?

[XorNot]

So you know, if instead of being one guy he was a substantial portion of intelligence operatives of a nation-state with significant industrial resources backing him?

Ukraine isn't wealthy, but it's still an entire country.

[euroderf]

That's why I say 5 or 10 years. But it will happen - put it within reach of a lone operator. I suspect.