July 8th, 2005
 senji
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2005/07/08 15:16:00 - Fond misunderstandings…
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<them> seeing as that whole area's (Kings Cross – Ed) a huge building site, could that have been how the terrorists slipped through the net?
<me> what net?
<them> the security check net.
<me> what security check net?
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Entry Tags: irc, tube bombings
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 ilanin
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2005/07/08 14:31:48
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Dude. Seriously. wtf? What city/country has a security check net for a rail terminus? Especially for a *subway* terminus, wherein a thorough security check would probably take longer than an appreciable fraction of the journeys...
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senji
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2005/07/08 14:33:10
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London, apparently.
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 fluffymormegil
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2005/07/08 14:34:11
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London, Ashford, Calais, Lille, Paris, and Brussel.
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ilanin
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2005/07/08 14:37:28
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If you're counting those, none of which actually do, then you missed out Tokyo, at very least.
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fluffymormegil
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2005/07/08 14:40:14
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There are railway stations in all of those places with at least one secured passenger-services platform...
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ilanin
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2005/07/08 14:41:47
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Which is rather different to what I was actually saying, which was a "secured" terminus, in the manner of an airport.
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ilanin
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2005/07/08 14:49:54
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And of course, even that isn't actually of much practical use, since the terrorists get on somewhere else. What you would need is a secure network, which is even more stupidly expensive and utterly implausible (until somebody comes up with an automated detection system for Bad Things which actually works, anyway).
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fluffymormegil
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2005/07/08 14:50:26
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I hadn't noticed Gatwick Airport, in the large, to be particularly secured.
Airside, yes. Though ISTR a stunt by one of the redtop rags suggesting that airside personnel vetting was not what it might be.
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ilanin
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2005/07/08 14:53:24
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For airside read trackside, naturally.
As for personnel vetting at airports, very much so. If you can be bothered to click through the advert which non-premium subscribers have to put up with, salon.com's Ask The Pilot column has a lot to say about the subject of airport security, none of which is complimentary when it talks about the screening of airport service crews.
I kind of lapsed in putting "secure" in inverted commas. I think we all know there is no such thing, just relative degrees.
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 alfvaen
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2005/07/08 19:46:39
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Obviously they snuck through Platform 9 3/4.
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