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zappaman

(20,606 posts)
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:51 PM Mar 2012

TSA Nude Body Scanners Rendered Worthless By Blogger

"In the rush to provide the illusion of safety, the TSA has “beefed up” security at airports by banning drinks and removing shoes. They introduced “enhanced pat downs” which, by any rational standards, would be considered legislated molestation. They spent a billion dollars of tax payer dollars to deploy a system that is so untested and odious that Israeli airport security, at once both the highest risk for terrorist attacks and the among the safest in the world, refuses to use it.

That system, of course, is the nude body scanner. Supposedly the next generation in safety, it has been widely criticized as, at best, a massive invasion of privacy and, at worst, a very expensive boondoggle.


It appears the boondoggle theory has panned out. Jonathan Corbett of TSA Out Of Our Pants has posted a video purporting to show him defeating airport security not once, but twice by walking a metal object through the scanners. Worse, he explains how easy is it to do and why it works."

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/07/breaking-tsa-nude-body-scanners-rendered-worthless-by-blogger/

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TSA Nude Body Scanners Rendered Worthless By Blogger (Original Post) zappaman Mar 2012 OP
Private companies talk our legislators into ineffective devices that are midnight Mar 2012 #1
No, this was done on the inside... the revolving door SomethingFishy Mar 2012 #3
Bingo! n/t zappaman Mar 2012 #5
The machines were another get richer scheme for someone liberal N proud Mar 2012 #2
Yep. BlueIris Mar 2012 #6
We ARE the 99%! Demeter Mar 2012 #4
If only 99% of people said NO to going through those machines Matariki Mar 2012 #7
Independent (UK) "Are planned airport scanners just a scam?" friendly_iconoclast Mar 2012 #8

midnight

(26,624 posts)
1. Private companies talk our legislators into ineffective devices that are
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 01:56 PM
Mar 2012

expensive and invade our privacy...

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
3. No, this was done on the inside... the revolving door
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:03 PM
Mar 2012

between public office and private enterprise. Michael Chertoff former head of Homeland Security has much invested in Rapidscan and pushed for it's scanners use when he was on Capitol Hill.

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
7. If only 99% of people said NO to going through those machines
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 02:12 PM
Mar 2012

well, that would actually probably change things.

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
8. Independent (UK) "Are planned airport scanners just a scam?"
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 03:16 PM
Mar 2012

New technology that Gordon Brown relies on for his response to the Christmas Day bomb attack has been tested – and found wanting


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/are-planned-airport-scanners-just-a-scam-1856175.html
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