Talk:Airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks

June 2006
This page seems to only discuss a few of the most superficial changes in security, and is mostly unsourced criticism of them. I am fairly sure that the security regulations have changed signficantly in the US since then -- DHS is now running the security, for one thing, and they have added all sorts of little things to the mix: sealed cockpits, armed US marshalls on planes, shoes are always removed, more scrutiny, no-fly lists, etc. Surely there is some way to get that information here... --Fastfission 21:17, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

What about increased security measures pertaining to passports, visas, and other proofs of identification? I heard from a television news channel that all US citizens who fly are now, or will soon be, required to have visas, yet I find no information about this at all in any of these Wikipedia articles (passports, visas, airline security). Shanoman 21:40, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Gilmore case is over
Someone may want to update the page:

http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/ Pgrote 04:28, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Lots of grafitti
Someone has really messed up this article. Words have been added in all over the place that are not true, like as a joke. I want to fix it but english is not my first language so I think that might be worse than better. 99.190.126.178 (talk) 22:43, 7 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Reverted. gxti (talk) 22:13, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Too US-centric
Phrases like Before September 11, 2001, airport screening was provided by private companies in this article suggest that repercussions in the rest of the world don't exist. If the article is going to mainly focus on the USA then it could at least make comparisons between airport security pre-September 11th in the USA and in other countries. Airport security in the USA was extremely weak compared to western countries like the UK and Israel. Apparently it used to be possible for non-travelers to enter the airside areas to say goodbye to their friends and family (you can even see this in films and TV series like Friends). The article does at least mention that the US used to have private airport security which sounds like the craziest idea ever - policing, education, health and security should always be state controlled yet the Americans seemed to think that somehow private business could provide a better (cheaper?) job - as one can still see today where the USA expects most of its citizens to pay for their healthcare, something that is considered a human right in most countries and which is provided by the state for less cost.--ЗAНИA talk talk] 17:24, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The article should also mention the pre-registration that all citizens of countries which don't require visas must now do. This isn't exactly airport security but national security but it does affect airports and means that security know in advance the details of who is flying in to the USA (a major privacy risk because US data protection laws are minimal compared to the EU and other countries).--ЗAНИA talk talk] 17:27, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

POV section heading
That would be "Improved security screening". It has arguably not improved, and results in more deaths due to unintended consequences. 68.170.190.61 (talk) 21:08, 4 May 2013 (UTC)