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"Strip Search" machines can't see through belts or pockets?
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy travel. I actually enjoy flying too, for
the most part, but security is just getting stupider and stupider. Last week I had a flight to one city for a couple days, another city for another couple days and then home again. This resulted in going through security six times for five flights due to border crossing and inability of one airline to have airworthy equipment on hand. To start with, in Canada they have a magical mat of randomness, when you step on it, it directs you to the appropriate line indicating whether you get additional screening or not. However, since Canada still has some of our basic freedoms we're permitted to leave the screening area at any time, so if you don't like what the mat decides you're free to depart and try your luck later. That being said, I'm not so sure it's actually anything resembling random since the one and only time I saw it indicate "red" in the 100+ people I watched go through security was when a devote Muslim named "Hussam" (apologies if that's misspelled) wandered through. What are the odds? The most interesting part was security in PHX, which had the new scanners. They can apparently measure my penis, but for some reason they can't see through belts -- Someone wanna explain that one to me? Or better yet, I should hit a bondage website and order some leather underwear if I want my privacy. So even after removing my shoes, belt (and jacket, if I hadn't accidentally left it behind in PHX... Ooops) to enter a machine that can see through my clothes, they still decided to feel me up just for fun. No, I wasn't flagged for secondary screening, it just turns out that the machines can't reliably see through baggy pockets either -- And yes, the pockets were completely empty, not so much as a piece of paper, but I still got a quickie right there in the airport. With that in mind, I'm wondering what all the fuss is about? Given that the machines apparently can't see through belts or baggy cargo pant pockets, what exactly can they see? Or is this just more theatre? Sure, there are some valid concerns about the amount and type of radiation since unlike medical X-Rays, the energy being used here is specifically tuned to not penetrate your skin, so your skin may actually absorb more energy total even though less energy is used, but honestly, that concerns me less than the money, time and lack of any real security that we gain. |
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