02-23-2024, 12:44 PM
(02-23-2024, 02:41 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: I'm very much confused as to what you think "could happen" that the bus operator wouldn't notice. I think they'd notice if someone boarded the bus, and that's really the security risk they are concerned about.
Real security is not done by requiring those pushing for security measures to prove existence of a scenario which defeats the alternative.
That being said, it’s not hard to come up with a scenario: the bus driver could be compromised. Now of course anybody anywhere could be compromised, but having a person drive an entire bus into and out of the secure area with little supervision (drivers normally work alone) is obviously imprudent.
Just have the bus pull up to a platform from which the passengers can easily reach the security checkpoint. Inconvenient if somebody is going plane → bus → plane but otherwise it’s just doing the same things in a different order.
Or not. It’s mostly security theatre anyway, so it really doesn’t matter what security practices are applied to the buses.
If you want to see real security, check out a bank branch. It just looks like a nice office like any that deals with paperwork and forms and the public. But try robbing it (not legal advice, don’t actually try this); good luck getting away with more than a couple of thousand dollars. You’d have to pull a heist every week indefinitely to maintain even a middle-class lifestyle.