The National Zoo is slated to become the latest site of the 21st century obsession with security theater. Fences, checkpoints, and bag searches will stand between visitors and the animals that have ...

Security theater isn’t necessarily as ineffective as the security community believes. In Israel, there is a guard at the entrance to every store. The guard isn’t very useful to stop an attacker, and ...

Twenty years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, people in the United States still put up with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security theater. While the COVID-19 ...

Another day, another ransomware attack or security breach at a brand-name company. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when you add the cyberattacks at lesser-known companies. This raises the ...

A tell-all in Politico from a former Transportation Security Agency worker confirms pretty much every awful thing you've suspected of those annoying and invasive airport pat downs. But that doesn't ...

This kind of security theater is a natural response to terrorism, but it’s a response that since 9/11 we’ve done an absolutely terrible job of reasoning through and then gradually ratcheting back.