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Tracy and I got to see a preview showing of the new Star Trek movie last night.
No spoilers here. However they were being really over the top with security
theatre given the movie isn't out here for another week. Firstly they had
employed a large number of suited security guys, most of which looked like
they'd be more comfortable on the door of a nightclub. They made sure to
confiscate one cell phone from everyone on the way in, and more thoroughly
search those without one. Once inside, through the entire movie, the hired
goons stood at the front and side scanning us all, and another guy with a video
camera filmed a scan of the audience every five or ten minutes.
It was a little distracting as whenever I see security theatre I can't help
thinking of ways it could fail. For example anyone entering the cinema with two
cell phones would evade the more extensive searches after giving up their first
phone. Bruce Schneier calls this a security
mindset. However, it was definately a movie worth trading some freedoms to
watch in advance, but I can't help wondering how long it will be before they try
to do this at every movie.
Created: 29 Apr 2009
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Well in some ways they used to do so when movie theatres had ushers and 'assigned' seating. Ushers would come through to make sure people weren't being noisy spilling things etc. They would stand at the bottom of theatres to keep hulligans (eg the kids who were dropped off by Dad to watch Tom Nix) from ruining it for other people. Now that instead was 1 or 2 goons versus 4-8 And the worst part is... you probably can get Star Trek from some Chinese website because they forgot to secure some guy with the video DVD's.