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by kube-system 105 days ago
They're not mutually exclusive things. Red-teamers often have quite a bit of expertise and are smarter than your average threat. And the point of these exercises is precisely to continually improve in response to the findings. But alas, most of the people who bring guns on to planes aren't threats anyway (at least not in the typical sense), they're idiots who forgot their CCW in their bag.
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ceejayoz 105 days ago
> Red-teamers often have quite a bit of expertise and are smarter than your average threat.

That is not super comforting.

> And the point of these exercises is precisely to continually improve in response to the findings.

Then they should proudly release some more recent results showing that improvement!

> Most of the people who bring guns on to planes aren't trying to hide anything at all, they're idiots who forgot their CCW in their bag.

Which means they aren't even bothering trying to hide it.

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Hizonner 104 days ago
> smarter than your average threat

Well, there's a good candidate for the dumbest assumption I'm going to see this month.

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kube-system 104 days ago
What assumption?

Well funded and planned security threats are overwhelmingly outliers. Most security threats in airports are drunk and pissed off idiots, and most terrorists are lone wolf crazies with zero experience or expertise in security.

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Hizonner 104 days ago
Those aren't the ones who are actually going to do serious damage. Drunk pissed off idiots haven't planned to be carrying anything anyway. Lone wolf crazies might get organized enough to be in the line in the first place... and if they do, well, crazy is not actually mutually exclusive with smart or even knowledgeable. And you still have the assumption that it matters how smart you are. There are only so many places to hide a weapon, and being smarter doesn't give you more choices.
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kube-system 104 days ago
A red teamer is going to be better suited at picking the right thing to hide and right way to conceal it, not because they have more options, but because they understand which combination of options are more likely to exploit the weaknesses of their target.
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