{"id":2887,"date":"2010-01-13T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2010-01-12T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T14:39:42","slug":"dear-tsa-an-idea-for-full-body-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/01\/13\/dear-tsa-an-idea-for-full-body-scanners\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear TSA: An Idea for Full-Body Scanners"},"content":{"rendered":"

RE:<\/strong> Full Body Scanners<\/p>\n

Dear TSA:<\/p>\n

I can’t help but notice that you’ve somehow got it into your head that we need full-body scanners now at every US airport. Well, I have a suggestion for you while you’re at it: instead of adding full-body scanners on top of everything else you’ve got to delay me while trying to get to my plane, why don’t you replace<\/strong> all the x-ray machines and other nonsense with just the one single (and hopefully, quick!) full-body scanner?<\/p>\n

Think about it: you wouldn’t have to ask people to take off their shoes, unpack laptops from their bags, empty spare change from their pockets, remove belts, take of scarves, and so forth. Just the one scanner could scan EVERYTHING on the person. Just a few seconds, and BAM!<\/strong> you’re done. How nice would that be?<\/p>\n

Of course, this idea hinges on the full-body scanner actually being useful for scanning people. If, on the other hand, it is just a huge, expensive, time-wasting machine to check for explosives in people’s underwear, then I have to tell you, respectfully, that this is a complete waste of time, money, and effort. So just knock it off already.<\/p>\n

But if it works, and if you could replace all the other nonsense at security checkpoints in airports with one quick, fast, non-invasive scan, then by all means, go ahead!<\/p>\n

Just a thought – but one I hope you guys take seriously!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An open letter to the TSA: wouldn’t it be nice to just replace all the security nonsense with one quick & easy full-body scan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[243,19,26,242],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","category-society","tag-dear-tsa","tag-government","tag-security","tag-tsa","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-Kz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2885,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2010\/01\/12\/dear-tsa-stop-keeping-secrets\/","url_meta":{"origin":2887,"position":0},"title":"Dear TSA: Stop Keeping Secrets","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"An open letter to the TSA asking them to stop being so secretive - because it's not helping anybody.","rel":"","context":"In "Rants"","block_context":{"text":"Rants","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/rants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":437,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/03\/28\/tsa-lied-about-protecting-passenger-data\/","url_meta":{"origin":2887,"position":1},"title":"TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 28, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Incompetence. 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