People seem to think our enemies need us to expose security flaws. They don't. Any terrorist planner worth a teaspoon of camel crap would notice such flaws--they'd stick out like a sore thumb amidst all the theater for the sheep.
Our nemeses are not stupid, despite the fact that a number of their tactical elements have proven inept (How many suicide bombers show up for practice?).
The planners are waay sharper, and they also recognize that whether an individual operation is a 'booming' success or not, it will cause the targeted population to change its behaviour--precisely the objective, more so than death and destruction, the reaction to a threat will be enough.
Since 9/11, the amount of ridiculous violation of the Rights of the average American is stunning. They don't have to destroy America, our 'protectors' and their apologists are doing it for them.
Just because your enemy can figure things out on their own does not support actively pointing out flaws and helping them.
“Any terrorist planner worth a teaspoon of camel crap would notice such flaws” once they buy a ticket, go through “security” (lol) and then study what’s there from a pending operations POV. Without getting sussed as a terrorist doing surveillance.
If they have a guy on the inside who can do surveillance in TSA’s “sanitized zone” and get it out, they don’t need to buy a ticket to get in.
And if they have a whistleblower sending it out risk-free, so much the better! And a pilot at that!
On the down side for us, though, now TSA will be looking at US even closer to be sure we are not sending “critical information” out of the “sanitized zone”, now that this guy has posted his YouTube vid. What do you think they’ll do to us in response?
As an aside, I got a lot of extra attention when flying out of Orlando. I casually asked, is that a Nomadics FIDO? I had only seen them in presentations and in a lab and had not seen them deployed. Shoe wipe, hand wipe, bag check, bag wipe and a pat down was my reward for asking. Good thing BP was all I had been handling! Well, BP and Cremora.