DHS: Anti missile defense systems

?It is a cat-and-mouse game,? Albright said. ?You deploy what you can today to meet the threat that exists today ? and once you?re there you have to keep your eye on how the threat is evolving and make sure you have science and technology programs in place to meet those threats should they materialize.?

when I was in the USAF, the ECM guys (Electronic Counter Measures) were a highly classified group. As Albright suggested, once the enemy gets their hands on your technology, they can engineer ways to defeat it. So it is impertative that it be kept secure against theft.

how would such security of ECM equipment be acheived at airports and on aircraft, unless a new level of access restriction existed. The objective of a "bad guy" would not be to merely put an explosive device on a single plane, but rather to steal technology that could compromise entire fleets! A far bigger payoff in the long run.

But then, I'm just a troublesome rocket hobbyists, whay do I know about security issues.

Geez, if the BATFE were smart, they would be building bridges between us an them as are aligned to the extent that we genuinely want to preserve our way of life. Instead they are trying to wipe us out.

Foolish mindset.

- iz

I'm not convinced that the ATF shares our concern for preserving our way of life. Their actions indicate that they are very much opposed to preserving the American way of life.

Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed wrote in news:gu2Lb.94478$ snipped-for-privacy@twister.nyc.rr.com:

It isn't about rationale behaviour, it's about public relations. We're an easy target for people who want to appear to be "doing something" about terrorism. It's a lot easier to shut down HPR and claim that the lack of HPR based terrorist attacks is the successful result than it is to stop a more realistic threat.

len.