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"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/
midnight
(26,624 posts)expensive and invade our privacy...
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)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.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)Nothing more.
BlueIris
(29,135 posts)Sorry business, that.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)and mad as hell and not going to take it any more.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)well, that would actually probably change things.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)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