Tag - security

How to Breeze Through Security

After the September 11 attacks, airline travel was forever changed by new regulations and tightened security. To make things worse, in 2001 Richard Reid unsuccessfully tried to light a bomb hidden in his shoe on an American Airlines flight. The incident spurred a new rule requiring passengers to remove and screen their footwear. Then, in 2006, a plot was uncovered in...

Avoiding foreign prisons with a zip tie

A friend of mine was sitting in her seat waiting for her flight to leave Mexico when she heard her name called over the intercom. She and her partner were asked to deplane and were corralled into a security office flanked by Mexican police officers. She was asked identify her bag and examine the contents. Everything seemed to be the same EXCEPT for a case of bullets...