On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote:
Also he said that you can carry legally a 7 inch knife in your luggage on internal flights.
I believe any 'legal' knife can be kept in checked luggage, and that is still the case. The FAA used to have a rule allowing the carry on of knives 4" and shorter, although most US prohibited carring anything larger than 3", so that is what most airports checked. I understand this is quite different from Europe, in the US many Americans carry items like swiss army knives or leathermans on a daily basis, including on planes. Interestingly enough several people make ceramic knives. See http://www.ceramic-knives.com/ for the kitchen variant, there are companies that make more weapon like versions. I can only assume that one of these would not set off a magnetometer, and would be easy to get past security. To keep this somewhat on topic, there is a general security parallel here that applies to planes, networks, millitary weapons and anything else you can imagine. Someone on the inside with nothing to lose can essentially always get past security. These people had spent years training to be pilots. Taking another couple of years to be actual employed pilots of an air carrier would probably have been something they were willing to do, putting them right at the controls. Employees behind firewalls can always copy the company secrets to a floppy and mail them to whoever they want. To a large extent the only deterrant to this sort of activity is the reprocussions that occur after the fact. Most actions cannot be taken by one person, they must have the support of larger groups. Everyone involved must be held responsible in the most severe way, so that no one is willing to help in the future. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org