Transportation Security
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Ground transportationNew insights into terrorist threats to ground transportation
A new analysis of terrorist attacks, and attempted attacks, on ground transportation shows that from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, terrorist groups used chemicals to attack surface transportation; from the mid-1990s on, multiple bombs became the new prototype for terrorist attacks
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Transportation securityNY-NJ Port Authority centralizes security operations
The Port of Authority of New York and new Jersey has created a stand-alone Security Department and is now searching for a Chief Security Officer to oversee all security and safety functions, resources, and personnel
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Sector Report for May 26, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for May 12, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for April 28, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for April 14, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for March 31, 2011: Transportation Security
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Identity-based screeningTSA considering "identity-based" screening
TSA does not call it “profiling,” but “identity-based screening”; the department is asking for public comments on the proposed system; “Physical screening will likely never go away completely, but the idea of adding identity-based security makes good sense and it’s an idea we’re actively exploring,” the department says
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Sector Report for March 17, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for March 3, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for February 17, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for February 3, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for January 20, 2011: Transportation Security
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Sector Report for December 23, 2010: Transportation Security
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Christmas terror plot: one year onTerror plot a "wake-up call" -- but experts differ on lessons to be drawn
Experts debate the significance of the terror attempt on Flight 253 last Christmas; Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University, called it a “daring” plan that was “as close to an aviation disaster as we’ve been since 9/11”; to Hoffman, Flight 253 was a “wake-up call”; Bruce Schneier, who is a critic of many of the security measures initiated by DHS, says the real lesson of Flight 253 is that “Two things have made us safer since 9/11: reinforcing cockpit doors and convincing passengers they can fight back”; Schneier says technology is not the answer: “We can’t continue to let terrorists spend $4,000 to change their tactics and we spend $100 million in airport security in response. That’s not sustainable”
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