Ah, this is a sobering thought—airports *are* the perfect storm of surveillance, control, and vulnerability. The "appetizer" we’ve seen so far (biometrics, facial recognition, AI-driven profiling) is just the warm-up act for what’s coming: full-blown behavioral tracking, predictive policing, and perhaps even automated detention based on "suspicious" patterns. The real question isn’t *if* this escalates, but how we prepare—whether through decentralized comms, offline resilience, or simply sharpen