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Originally Posted by foreverwar
I think it is a good approach, but Ben-Gurion airport has the same travel stats as Birmingham airport (just above 10 million passengers a year), so Heathrow/Gatwick may have a problem with all these manual checks.
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I see no obvious reason why the process couldn't be scaled up. Also if you look at the number of passengers as a proportion of population (for the provision of trained, available staff) Ben Gurion is quite a bit "busier" than Heathrow.
Behavior profiling isn't anything particularly new but the having lots of small, unintrusive checks instead of 1 lrge intrusive one is quite radical. But makes sense when you think about it. With 'our' way, you only need to fool 1 or members of staff. They could be tired or lazy or new. The chances are you won't get lazy, tired or new staff if you meet 7 or 8 of them along the way.
I would like to know the false-positives rate though and how well they are dealt with.
I think we can learn a lot from Israel. They've suffered from terrorism for 50 odd years now almost constantly at the level of The Troubles. We're quite lucky in that respect.