TSA Body Scanners Can Store, Transmit Images

[Guest]

This just in: the TSA brownshirts will say "penis/pussy, please?" instead of "papers, please?"

 

[Guest]

jsc I'm going to shit on your food. if you don't like it you can just go hungry.

 

[zachary k]

oh god, i would hate for someone to be looking at my featureless black and white whateveryoucallit image./sarcasm over. anyone who is offended by this is an idiot. anyone who find those photos attractive is an idiot who does not know how to search the web. if it keeps planes safe, we need more of these and people need to grow up.

 

[zachary k]

[citation][nom]RooD[/nom]Ill just fly naked... then i dont need the extra radiation.... On another note ill start selling coppersheilding underwear[/citation]
wearing coppershilding underwear mean you have something to hide, which means tackled and cavity searched.

 

[loomis86]

If ya don't want tsa to see your privates, then stuff your undies with tin foil.

 

[mr_tuel]

LumberWagon might be on to something there, and I could start tying knots all day if you know what I mean...

 

[invlem]

I could care less about the images these scanners are capable of making. I'm more concerned with the fact that some of these scanners use terahertz waves.

A technology which is supposedly 'safe' yet hasn't been around long enough to properly test. There is already a study that shows that these waves have the capability of breaking DNA strands, even if its a minor risk, its still a technology that shouldn't be used on the masses until its researched further.

 

[buwish]

I do not have a problem with them because as a "large scale" attacks have been thwarted for the most part, terrorists are starting to make a move towards more "covert" tactics, i.e. the idiotic "underwear bomber." Body scanners are a necessary means of evolving with the tactics of the idiots that try to smuggle explosives onto planes.

 

[bogcotton]

[citation][nom]Computer_Lots[/nom]I predict a 100% increase in teenage boys applying for TSA jobs.[/citation]

and a 100% increase in teenage boys gouging their eyes out after realising the majority of people are fat and ugly.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

There is no need for these scans. If I wanted to bomb a plane and I knew these scanners were there... would I fucking carry them on my body? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Jesus this is so retarded.

 

[necronic]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]TSA should be terminated. There is no need for security anyway. You cannot prevent an air plane bombing, but you can easily piss off every passengers with the an APPEARANCE of security.[/citation]

Wow, that's just....wow that's dumb.

I think that as Americans we live in an ivory tower in more than one way, and safety is the one I'm seeing here. People take our long history of safety/security as an indication that that's just how things are. The fact is that for the rest of the world personal safety was a luxury at best.

Things have gotten better since the end of the cold war, but now we are experiencing a whole new threat. Thomas Friedman best described them as "super-empowered individuals". In the past, for a crazy person to become a serious threat (eg Hitler, Linin, Stalin, Pol Pot) they had to go through the political process and become a leader. They had to somehow get lots of people behind them, as only large groups of people had the power to affect other large groups of people.

Today that simply isn't the case, thanks to the way the world works now we have these Super Empowered Individuals who can cause massive devastation quite easily. Its not surprising that Bond movies have died off a bit, because these days they ring far too true.

Point being, I do believe in privacy rights, but I also think that people clutch their privacy blanket and act like it is all important. Its not. There really ARE people out there that want nothing more than to kill as many people of a certain group as possible, and security measures are necessary to, if not stop it, at least make it far more difficult than it is right now, and as a chemist let me tell you, its really damned easy right now. Our main defense is the lack of education that is so pervasive in these groups.