Comments on: Hey, TSA, Stop Looking At My Bum http://www.slashgear.com/hey-tsa-stop-looking-at-my-bum-0596694/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 14 May 2012 15:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matt Dana http://www.slashgear.com/hey-tsa-stop-looking-at-my-bum-0596694/#comment-65808 Matt Dana Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:55:42 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=96694#comment-65808 Amen, to all of this. What a dystopian nightmare we’ve brought upon ourselves.

]]> By: Steve Scanner http://www.slashgear.com/hey-tsa-stop-looking-at-my-bum-0596694/#comment-65807 Steve Scanner Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:51:57 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=96694#comment-65807 This is a strip-search, period. It makes no difference that the technology allows it to be done on an industrial scale, it’s a violation of privacy that ultimately has ,at best, no effect on safety. At worst, it exposes frequent fliers to elevated doses of x-ray radiation which may cause more deaths by cancer than the terrorists could ever kill with an airplane.

Body-cavities are not revealed, thus making this simply an exercise in power-mongering voyeurism.

You MUST opt-out of these intrusive searches, and maybe be wanded/patted by a same-sex guard. I did this at SFO a few months ago, which gave me the opportunity to officially express my displeasure – the guard wrote down the reason for my opting-out for their official records (it’s a strip-search, I said). I suggest more people do this.

Plus – do you want your kids showing up to Beavis & Butthead in the back room looking like this:

http://www.rupture.co.uk/Terminal%204.html

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