Posted on 08/13/2012 11:15:49 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
A jet-skier who became stranded in Jamaica Bay easily breached the security system at John F. Kennedy International Airport by walking undetected through two runways and into a terminal.
Daniel Castillo of Queens swam to shore and then walked past motion sensors and closed-circuit cameras of the airport's state-of-the art Perimeter Intrusion Detection System.
The $100 million system is meant to safeguard against terrorists.
Castillo climbed an eight-foot-tall perimeter fence and made his way to Terminal 3, according to The New York Post. He approached a Delta Air Lines worker, who alerted authorities, the paper said.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is investigating. The agency says it has increased patrols on the ground and in the water and plans to meet with the security system's maker this week.
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just like that West German teenager who landed his Cessna in Red Square.
“Like, hang ten, dude!”
Motion sensors and cameras . . . isn’t that the “virtual fence” theory for defending the southern border of the U.S.? About as effective as I imagined.
Motion sensors and cameras . . . isn’t that the “virtual fence” theory for defending the southern border of the U.S.? About as effective as I imagined.
I was in a store last week that had the video cameras behind the black half sphere and the old fake cameras were still screwed into the wall below them.
Makes you wonder if they are not just fancier fake cameras.
Some people have a gift for breaching security.
They either look like they belong, or they’re so bland they don’t get noticed.
I’m surprised nobody has given this a name yet.
Come on. New York is liberal land - ruled by the Blunderbussberg.
As such, their security is even more full of holes than was Boston’s Logan mess-port.
Libs cannot run anything.
At all.
Probably a paid Obamabot to further the meme :
“Unionizing the TSA would fix all this”.
Next we will hear that they really needed a $200 million security system if we expect them to keep the airport secure.
You could spend $1 billion on security and it wouldn’t matter a hill of beans if no one was actually monitoring it or verifying that it was working.
We see this all the time in the IT security world, people buy fancy security boxes, throw them on their networks and then expect instant security by magic...well no, you need to fine tune and set everything up and then have means to monitor and audit..otherwise its just an expensive box that is doing nothing but giving you a false sense of security.
I had an instructor at LACC nearly 40 years ago who said essentially the same thing: Just act like you know what you’re doing.
Affirmative Action LOL
Reminds me of the time I fired a guy for sleeping in a closet. An hour later I was called on the carpet because the guy’s mommy was president of the local NAACP. The guy was back sleeping on the job the next day.
I was working on Klamath Falls, Oregon Airport (which is 50/50 military and civilian airport) in summer of 2001 (we were paving around a new FBO) when out of the blue I see this Mercury Monarch with this old pair of barely peeping over the top of the steering wheelcoming slowly down the taxiway toward my project. So I step in front of the car and put my hand up and stopped him. About 30 seconds later 3 cars full of Air Force security personnel pulled up and and drug this 84 year man out of the car at gun point.
Turns out he had been to the base PX and made a wrong turn and ended up on the airport taxiway system (which has the same road markings as a county road). Also turned out he was a D-Day vet.
Long story short is he breached the Air Force side of the base and was let go about 2 hours later. I never forgot that considering 3 months later was Sept. 11, 2001 and thnking what they might have done then...
Mohammed doesn't surf!
Maybe they should put in some of Washington DC’s traffic camera’s I can testify that they work.
Motion detecters or whatever, they work.
But then again they are to collect revenue, not to enhance safety.
“Just act like you know what you’re doing.”
You can walk into virtually any manufacturing plant in the country with a white hard hat and a clipboard, and get any trade secrets you wish
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