I'm a bit concerned about the security on our airports. Despite all high-tech surveillance, it's possible to hijack a plane without making anything illegal or anything difficult at all up till the very second the hijacking takes place. Here's how: You just walk through the passport control with a legal passport, with cabin baggage containing no weapons at all through x-ray scan or whatever it is, and you pass through the metal detector without any problems. None of these security measures will detect anything suspicious, because you don't do anything suspicious at this point. Then you go to the tax free shops between the passport control and buy a bottle of wine. Continue to the gate and the plane, and check in. You still haven't done anything suspicious or illegal at this point, so nobody will stop you, and none of the guys watching surveillance cameras will react at all. Then you board the plane, sit down and put on the safety belt when the sign is up, being a good obedient aircraft passenger. When you feel the right time has come, you quickly break the bottle of wine, use the sharp broken bottle as a weapon, and do whatever previous hijackers have been doing with razors and knives.

I think this is a major problem in airport security and should be addressed. Allowing selling of wine bottles and the possible existence of many other dangerous items that could be used as weapons BETWEEN plane and cabin bag scanners is pretty strange when at the same time it isn't allowed to carry scissors through the cabin bag controls.

I'd like to hear what your opinions on this are. Personally I think what is sold beyond the cabin baggagge scanners should be controlled a little better and selling of wine or anything else in glass bottles should be forbidden in that location.

Oh and finally, if any poster here is a representative of a government that wants to hire my consult services to look over their security systems just PM me and I offer my services for a mere 50$ an hour excluding travel costs.

I'm posting this here rather than sending it to the police because I think the weakness is so obvious that terrorists probably have already discovered it (it struck me the moment I saw it even though I was thinking about Europa Barbarorum and other non-related things - I wasn't even trying to find such security loopholes and still found it against my own will) and there's therefore hopefully nothing to lose in announcing it plus I don't know who I should contact about a thing like this, I don't know which number to call or where to send an email. I hope that any army related person or any other poster here that knows who to contact about such a problem as this does so as soon as possible to avoid terrorists using this weakness in the security before it has been corrected.

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Someone will always find a way, I say we go back to the old days, if half the passengers are carrying knives and/or potential weapons the highjackers will have a harder time than they would know if they used your wine bottle trick.

Arm everyone, it's the american way

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No, not at all, that would create obvious problems. Removing the selling of dangerous things in the area between passport controls and the gates is a loophole that is easy to close.

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I'm just tired of all those security measures that just annoy regular people and do very little about the actual problem. Al Qaida could be teaching their new recruits kung fu so they could hijack planes

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it's twice as annoying if they're annoying without having any effect at all because greed makes airports want to sell space for shops in the area between controls and the gates, or is it not greed but lack of thought? Also if it's still that easy to hijack a plane then people could ask why the **** the surveillance of ordinary citizens outside airports and other restrictions of privacy are made if it has no effect other than infringing democratic rights and bringing western society closer to dictatorship. Airport controls are a valid and useful way of stopping terrorism directed at civilians. Restricting democratic rights is not. I hope airport security controls are improved.

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With enough karatism, you could hijack anything you like because your hands would be lethal weapons. Just ask Chuck Norris.

Ninja mastery defeats terrorism every time.

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