Feeling a bit exposed at the airport
They’ve been in place at Boston’s Logan airport for a while, but today was the first time I went through one of the new and semi-controversial full-body scanners. I tried not to think about what the security folks were looking at, and it wasn’t too bad. It did seem to take a lot longer than the regular X-ray does, and I ended up getting a very thorough pat-down anyway, though. I was traveling during a slow time at a slow gate, but if this was how they were checking people at 6:30 am in a busy terminal, I can only imagine how far the lines would have backed up.
Thankfully, the rest of my trip to Baltimore was much less revealing.
October 13th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
You have the ABSOLUTE RIGHT to OPT-OUT.
Click on my name above or go to:
http://DontScan.me
for important safety and privacy information as well as actual images, not the propaganda that TSA is spewing.
October 14th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I’ve been a great supporter of whatever was in the interest of national security, but I haven’t actually been through the body scanner yet. I’m wondering if I’ll feel differently when it’s my turn to be scanned!
October 15th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
I am not a supporter of things that are alleged to be in national security because many of them aren’t. And many of them have no practical purpose.
Why, for example, should you have to show a picture ID to get into an office building? A person who is up to no good will have a valid ID, so that won’t stop them.
A lot of this security stuff is more about control than about security.
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