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German TV on the Failure of Full-Body Scanners: “The video is worth watching, even if you don’t speak German. The scanner caught a subject’s cell phone and Swiss Army knife — and the microphone he was wearing — but missed all the components to make a bomb that he hid on his body. Admittedly, he only faced the scanner from the front and not from the side. But he also didn’t hide anything in a body cavity other than his mouth — I didn’t think about that one — he didn’t use low density or thinly sliced PETN, and he didn’t hide anything in his carry-on luggage.” (via Schneier on Security)
Related:
- German body scanner protesters remove clothes at airport (gadling.com)
- Body scanners scan people walking by (warintel.blogspot.com)
- Do Your Travel Plans Include A Full Body Scan Or An Intrusive Probe? (businessinsider.com)
- Will new, oppressive, airport security measures keep us safer? (wilderside.wordpress.com)
- 100 naked body scan images leaked; Why is scanner picking up people in line? (americablog.com)
- Engineer refuses scanner, protects junk, gets investigated (news.cnet.com)
So you would rather compromise the safety of thousands of people than get scanned. I can’t stand people who complain about airport security. It really is scary people complain about security measures after 9/11
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Pilots, flight attendants, and other frequent fliers are going to be subjected to massive, unsafe doses of radiation by being scanned constantly. You can be sure the government is not going to pay for their cancer treatment.
As Ben Franklin suggested (in slightly different words) people who will give up their freedom for a little security deserve neither.
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