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by kube-system 103 days ago
Yeah, exactly, the security posture was simply to accept the risk because it was presumed to be small. A hijacking is an archetypal security failure, but airlines chose not to add friction to their operations to prevent them.

It's the Ford Pinto cost-benefit analysis scandal of the sky.

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The fairly reasonable concern was that it’d turn relatively peaceful events into massacres.

Too much security can be a problem just like too little can.