{"id":2261,"date":"2004-02-20T03:42:53","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T19:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/20\/smoke-and-mirrors\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:25:32","slug":"smoke-and-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/02\/20\/smoke-and-mirrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke and mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11702,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/frequentflyer.oag.com\\\/stories\\\/02042004\\\/f120701-3.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Related to the previous post, a new whitepaper from security consulting firm BoydForbes Security states that the nation&#8217;s aviation security system is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/frequentflyer.oag.com\/stories\/02042004\/f120701-3.asp\" title=\"Missing in Action\">smoke and mirrors<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Today we do not have anything resembling real security to protect the commercial aviation system and the traveling public,&#8221; asserts David Forbes, president of Colorado-based BoydForbes Security. &#8220;The sham pretense on stage now, and the implied direction of the future, is Oscar winning material of the &#8216;smoke and mirrors&#8217; variety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  Among the major conclusions of the white paper:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Security upgrades are aimed at show, not substance.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s been a failure to replace incompetent management.<\/li>\n<li>An enormous bureaucracy hinders security flexibility.<\/li>\n<li>A lack of accountability continues to persist.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lack of cohesion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related to the previous post, a new whitepaper from security consulting firm BoydForbes Security states that the nation&#8217;s aviation security system is &#8216;smoke and mirrors.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}