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https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-end-shoes-off-policy-airport-security-screening/story?id=123556295
64•avonmach•5h ago

Comments

yincrash•4h ago
With no explanation on the change, I will have to assume that taking off our shoes never made us any safer.
haiku2077•4h ago
It's due to new technology: https://youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ
laborcontract•4h ago
There is not a single thing in this video that addresses shoes. I want my time back.

video tldr: 3d x-rays have made bag scanners more effective at screening

djaychela•4h ago
Certainly in the UK it was linked to this attempted attack [1] but seemed very specific like banning laser toner cartridges as they were an attack attempt.

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid

tw04•4h ago
Let me start by saying I'm no fan of the TSA having been traveling for business for 20 years. But we do know exactly why it was originally enacted. Which is that someone tried to hide a bomb in the base of their shoe to blow up a flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid

While we don't know why they've stopped, it could be any number of things: from they have other ways of detecting explosives that don't require your shoes going through a scanner, to they just don't think it's an issue anymore.

While a lot of what TSA does appears to be security theater, saying "it never made any of us safer" is a claim you have no way of backing up.

Analemma_•4h ago
The problem with this theory is that plenty of times (not just for PreCheck flyers), they arbitrarily decide you don't need to take your shoes off. It's not a technology thing, because they change it back and forth at the same gate at the same airport-- I fly enough to know. And whatever they've changed it to, they bark at you for not knowing, as though you could've known about whatever RNG generates TSA policy this week.

It's a power play, nothing more.

haiku2077•4h ago
> they change it back and forth at the same gate at the same airport-- I fly enough to know.

Are you using the same scanner machines every time? (They can look similar externally but operate on different principles)

dataflow•3h ago
> It's not a technology thing, because they change it back and forth at the same gate at the same airport

Are you of the opinion that unpredictability has zero security value?

recursivecaveat•3h ago
Doing something at random half the time is definitely better than doing it 0% of the time, or predictably half the time. From a security standpoint it's certainly worse than doing it 100% of the time. If you're randomizing day-to-day its pointless though. If you had something in your shoe, you could just walk away once you saw other people taking off their shoes. You're not obligated to continue. If anybody asks then you forgot your phone in your car.
unethical_ban•3h ago
Sure, randomly pulling people over or demanding access to their bank records might reveal patterns, but we supposedly have rights in western countries.
ranger207•2h ago
In general, no. In this specific case, yes
tw04•1h ago
>The problem with this theory is that plenty of times (not just for PreCheck flyers), they arbitrarily decide you don't need to take your shoes off.

At what airport? How do you know it's "arbitrary" - do you have some additional information the rest of us don't?

>It's not a technology thing, because they change it back and forth at the same gate at the same airpor

What airport? Because I fly enough to know they don't do that at LAX, SFO, SJC, or ORD.

>It's a power play, nothing more.

By WHO? The guy who implemented the policy hasn't worked in government since GWBs term. The random TSA worker has literally 0 say in the policy of taking your shoes off.

xnyan•4h ago
Until 2017, The DHS Inspector General’s office found that 90% – 95% of dangerous items get through screening checkpoints in testing.

What changed in 2017? They stopped publishing the results of the testing.

Liquix•4h ago
IIRC the modern "raise your arms" scanners had not been rolled out in 2006 when the shoe policy was instituted. perhaps the TSA has realized there's no point in making people take off their shoes when explosives/contraband within are easily picked up by the new scanners.
greyface-•4h ago
The article implies that passengers who opt out of the "raise your arms" millimeter wave scanner and go through the magnetometer instead will not have to take their shoes off unless the magnetometer alarms:

> Passengers who trigger the alarm at the scanners or magnetometers, however, will be required to take their shoes off for additional screening, according to the memo.

saulpw•3h ago
I have opted out of the scanner at numerous airports over the past 20 years, without fail (dozens of times), and not once have I been asked to go through a 'magnetometer'. It's been a manual pat down every time.
greyface-•3h ago
It's been a few years since I've flown (and opted out of the MMW), but I recall being directed through the magnetometer first, then receiving a pat down on the other side. Maybe that was nonstandard.
0cf8612b2e1e•3h ago
I have always opted out of the full body scanner and always had to go through the metal detector followed by pat down.
privatelypublic•3h ago
Most of them arent mmwave.
mc32•4h ago
It’s always risk/reward. The risk isn’t only physical; it can also be intangible. For now at least, it looks like they’ve reassessed and decided it’s not worth the inconvenience.
gryfft•4h ago
The policy began as a direct response to the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt in December 2001 [1]. This was as America was still reeling from 9/11, and full body scanners weren't standard at airports yet. Now they are, and they've improved explosive detectors too [2].

It indeed seems like it was always something of an overreaction, but an understandable one that's now fully overlapped by superior modern scanning.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_63_(2...

2. https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2022/10/06/f...

Edit: whoa, groupthink.

privatelypublic•3h ago
Also, this is from memory, but 'cotton wipe' tests for the compounds used didn't exist for several more years and a few more incidents.
os2warpman•3h ago
>Edit: whoa, groupthink.

Every time an article about airport security is posted the comments are the same.

To prove that I'm sane and my memory has not been corrupted by time or cosmic rays I google "airline hijackings by year", I look at the graphs in google images, and I briefly wonder what happened in early 1970s and 2000s before remembering what happened in early 1970s and 2000s.

Then I murmur "that's some fantastically effective theater".

reverendsteveii•2h ago
can you find any stats on yearly hijackings that are limited to only flights where hijackers made it through american security, though? all I can find are global aggregate stats and its a bit unfair to credit TSA with preventing the hijacking of a flight from Heathrow to Dubai
os2warpman•1h ago
I didn't mention TSA.

Most TSA, FAA, and airline operator policies and procedures are harmonized with ICAO and IATA policies and procedures. Of course, there are regional variations and differences between international and domestic flights within those regions, but for the most part things are consistent among all of the members of both signatories of Convention on International Civil Aviation (ICAO members) and IATA members.

The whole shoe thing was proposed someone who wasn't the US (I think the UK, but my memory is fuzzy-- damn cosmic rays), submitted to ICAO, voted on, and enacted by the US as a signatory.

dataflow•3h ago
That seems like a childish and unreasonable assumption. In addition to the technology changes everyone mentioned, it could also have to do with other factors, like the actual threats the country faces, or the relative weight the powers-that-be place on the different sides of each tradeoff. It's not like this is a controlled experiment where every other factor is held constant.
red-iron-pine•2h ago
and that it took 20+ years to prove that.
kelseyfrog•4h ago
Can you still opt-in?
reverendsteveii•4h ago
I wonder what the next act of security theater will be. JK, it's screening your phone for illegal memes about the vice president. Not kidding. https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/dangerous-extremist-propagan...
nsypteras•4h ago
> The transportation agency has spent years looking for an innovative way to allow passengers to move faster through the security checkpoints.

I think the writer had some fun with this one

RyJones•4h ago
I hope this spreads to the EU; Warsaw security is so slow: everyone taking off belts and handing them through the metal detector, taking off shoes.
jltsiren•3h ago
The EU already allowed keeping your shoes on in 2016. It's up to each individual airport / authority to decide if they want to invest in a more convenient screening process.

Metal belt buckles probably trigger false alarms in every screening device in existence. Even metal buttons and zippers may do that if the device is sensitive enough (such as those at SFO).

jcotton42•2h ago
Yeah, I have TSA PreCheck and I still take off my belt, it's just easier.
Aardwolf•4h ago
Hmm, this seems to not have been necessary on flights within Europe, but I saw some people remove them every now and then, maybe out of habit
Cortex5936•4h ago
Depends where in Europe. I had to do it with my boots in Romania
bluetidepro•4h ago
I will believe it when I see it. Most TSA agents don’t follow the official rules, and seem to just do whatever they feel like on any given day. I’ve had to take my shoes off for even TSA Pre which shouldn’t even happen already.
0cf8612b2e1e•3h ago
What gets me is the inconsistency of everything. Do I need just my ID? Boarding pass? Both? Then you get annoyance from the agent because you do not know today’s policy.
Sohcahtoa82•2h ago
I typically found that it's consistent at individual airports, but that each airport could be different.

But the fact that TSA agents refused to acknowledge that it can work differently at each airport was certainly obnoxious.

For years, every time I went to Las Vegas from my home in Portland, the PDX TSA would have to tell everyone to take off their shoes, while the LAS TSA would tell everyone to keep their shoes on. Occasionally, someone would be like "Huh, that's different from $OTHER_AIRPORT" and the TSA agent would be like "Sir, it's the same everywhere".

Of course, PDX recently got a remodel and with it, new scanners, so now shoes can stay on.

buyucu•4h ago
shoes-off policy at airports was probably the longest running snake-oil of all time.
sceadu•3h ago
trickle down economics?
bediger4000•3h ago
I think we'll live to regret this rollback. Think of all the horrific shoe-bombings that were prevented by merely forcing everyone who boarded an airplane for 24 years to take off their footwear and have it X-rayed. Thousands of lives saved.
red-iron-pine•2h ago
at least thousands. probably billions.
josefritzishere•3h ago
Less theatre in the security theatre?
michaelcampbell•1h ago
TSA Pre-check was worth it just for this alone (and not having to unpack my laptop).

I'll keep it since in Atlanta at least the lines are still way shorter, but yay regardless.

BrandoElFollito•45m ago
It's been years I have not taken my shoes off in a European airport (10 years, maybe more?)

Now it's time to end the laptop off the bag circus