Idea: Bruce Schneier needs a superhero outfit. He would be a masked crusader who visits airports around the world and points out how foolish certain security policies are and how they are all about making people feel safe rather than actual security. He would be kind of like Angle-Grinder Man, except he’s a respected security consultant and bearded.

So while I was waiting in the long security lines in LAX, I overheard some Chinese folks talking. I thought to myself, “That must be Cantonese—it sounds so unfamiliar.” Then I got to Singapore and realized I was wrong. Even Mandarin sounds that way to me now… it’s sad.

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I used to think that LAX was the worst international airport I’d been to outside the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Thanks to the TSA, this is no longer true; Jordan’s is much better.

Taipei was pretty cool.

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