Source: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/0 ... t_n_1.html

 

Published: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 10:30 AM Updated: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 4:17 PM

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Full-body scanners raise privacy, time concerns, but N.J. travelers say safety is worth the wait

 

ARLINGTON, Va.

Well time to fill out a TSA application

 

There was a huge stink about the photos being stored in a computer at one airport. They're supposed to be automatically deleted.

 

Personally, I've been through one of these scanners - they have them at San Francisco International airport. It's an added PITA. I don't like them. Personally I've always felt that whatever security they've added to the airports since 9/11 (especially the retarded liquid stuff) has just been a hinderance to all travellers.

I really don't care if some idiot enjoys looking at my package. Go for it. However I read a few articles about how the scanners are not as safe as they say. Something about how they can rip the DNA apart in your cells. Not good in my opinion.

I think the security is still pretty easy to get through. Hell my friggin carry on had FIREWORKS in it one time (very much by accident). I had an hour layover and realized they were in there... about had a friggin heart attack! Went to the bathroom and dumped em.

Bah - if you got through with 'em, they won't check again.

Lol... it was like a couple of those M2000 wussy crackers. Still... if I DID get caught with them I would probably see jail time. Are a couple fireworks that you don't even care about worth missing your flight, getting interrogated, probably put in jail, and charged with some crimes? Hell no they got flushed.

She's pretty hot.

I've said this before elsewhere.

 

It's not about them seeing me. It isn't. I'm an old fat slob, I don't care.

 

It's about them ignoring the problem and targeting the wrong people. They offend millions so that a few aren't offended.

 

I will refuse to go through one of these scanners. I fly a lot. They don't get to invade my privacy. Fuck 'em.

 

They've also been shown to keep the scanner images. Nice new source of material for the underground kiddie porn ring.

Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images

 

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20012583-281.html

 

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."

 

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

 

This follows an earlier disclosure (PDF) by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for "testing, training, and evaluation purposes." The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports.

 

Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual strip search. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing fuzzier images, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.

 

This privacy debate, which has been simmering since the days of the Bush administration, came to a boil two weeks ago when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that scanners would soon appear at virtually every major airport. The updated list includes airports in New York City, Dallas, Washington, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, and Philadelphia.

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I will refuse to go through one of these scanners. I fly a lot. They don't get to invade my privacy. fugg 'em...

 

 

I guess you wont be flying from any airports that have them then :doh:

You can always arrive early, refuse the scanner, and consent to a body search. Just tell them that you are afraid of getting cancer or some crap... or that you think the scanner will steal your soul

 

May be a fun way to kill a couple hours while waiting for your flight...LOL!

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I will refuse to go through one of these scanners. I fly a lot. They don't get to invade my privacy. fugg 'em...

 

 

I guess you wont be flying from any airports that have them then :doh:

 

Yeah, watch me. I've logged 250k miles in the past 7 years, I'll get through. "my religion prevents me from going through your machine"

geesh... what are you MUSLIM??? HAHAHAH!

Wiccan.

Bah - if you got through with 'em, they won't check again.

 

Actually, I'm pretty sure once your in the secure area, you can be checked again if they want. Not worth it for a few firecrackers.

 

I was in LAX yesterday, and they "randomly" searched a few people boarding the flight that was before mine.