New airport scanners.

[Jrecee]

What I am suggesting is that the TSA exists to funnel money to well connected businesses. This is total standard practice for corruption in Washington these days.

Just like how vaccinations exist so that the drug companies can make money off us?

I don't know if you were being serious or sarcastic but there's truth to that.

[ZeroAX]

Maybe the Terrorists winning through loss of some of our freedoms?

I think they won when they went from small group, with little power among the Afghanistan factions, to big player in the middle east.

I know you couldn't just sit by and take having 3 buildings destroyed and 3000 people killed, but on the other hand, a full scale invasion of Afghanistan is just what they wanted. It enforced the anti American resentment in the area, and since they are the ones who managed to pull off the biggest attack against you, all those local Afghans who are mad at you joined their faction.


Still think a small special operations unit, would have been a much better idea, but then again the west needs those trade routes open. How else would we get our Arab oil. Then we'd have to depend exclusively on the Russians for energy.

[MrPopo]

What I am suggesting is that the TSA exists to funnel money to well connected businesses. This is total standard practice for corruption in Washington these days.

Just like how vaccinations exist so that the drug companies can make money off us?

I don't know if you were being serious or sarcastic but there's truth to that.

<facepalm>

[GSZX1337]

Leaked Full-Body Scanner Images

Original Gizmodo Story: One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

[Jrecee]

http://gizmodo.com/5692351/junk-securit ... ep-us-safe

[gtmtnbiker]

Any employee who violates the privacy policies should be fired from their jobs and potentially get some jail time. This is no different from employees who violate similar policies in the past such as: giving out people's phone numbers, medical information, credit card numbers, and other personal information. This has been done in the past and will continue to happen in the future.

[Ivo]

Any employee who violates the privacy policies should be fired from their jobs and potentially get some jail time. This is no different from employees who violate similar policies in the past such as: giving out people's phone numbers, medical information, credit card numbers, and other personal information. This has been done in the past and will continue to happen in the future.

The employees which violated similar policies in the past gave out personal info, not personal pictures, because people only indirectly trusted them with personal info in the first place (and not with personal pictures). People are naturally worried about strangers employed by TSA having access to their nude pictures (even though they are considered low quality by some).

Basically you're not countering the point, but reinforcing it when you say it is no different from other cases. I.e. there are bad employees everywhere, hence the warranty given by TSA which is supposed to put people at ease is not as valid as it would have been otherwise!

It is obvious even TSA doesn't trust all 100% of their employees manning the scanners with the pictures (rightly so) as they claim the hardware makes it difficult to keep the stuff (although unless the employees themselves are monitored constantly or checked with these kind of "improved patdowns" or scans before going into the booth, I would think it is as difficult as snapping up a picture of a monitor).

Ivo.

[Hatta]

Any employee who violates the privacy policies should be fired from their jobs and potentially get some jail time. This is no different from employees who violate similar policies in the past such as: giving out people's phone numbers, medical information, credit card numbers, and other personal information. This has been done in the past and will continue to happen in the future.

I don't care how professional you are, I'm not getting naked for you unless I get something out of it. Stripping down to a gown and letting the doctor examine the moles on my nutsack? Yes, that makes me safer. Pose nude before getting on a plane? That's bullshit.

[Ivo]

From some comments here I'm puzzled - if you go for the "improved" pat-down, don't they always assign a same-gender agent for it?

As ridiculous as this may be to some of you, I personally wouldn't want to have any pat-downs of the kind, but even less a pat-down by a female agent (and I think many women would object more if a male agent were to pat them down over a female). Even if they are professional about it (which is dubious it seems), I am certainly not a professional of getting felt up...

I understand this may be a bit funny the way I wrote it, but I'm serious here.
For those of you who have significant others here, while I'm pretty certain that many of you would not mind getting a female patting you down (particularly if you consider her attractive, it seems ), certainly I'm not alone in being uncomfortable about it regardless of the attractiveness of the lady doing it... And how many of you would mind having a male patting your wife down?

Ivo.

[gtmtnbiker]

As a kid, I had wanted to order stuff like this from the back of a comic book. Maybe these will be a not-too-distant reality?