Sunday, December 12, 2010

The porno scanners don't work

Turns out that just molding the plastic explosives to look like part of your body will fool the scanner. And apparently this has been known since the beginning.

So why are we using this anyhow? Well.... a) The folks making the scanner bribed the TSA (via the offer of high-paying jobs after the folks who made the decision leave the TSA), b) it gets people used to getting strip-searched at airports, and to the authoritarians who run the TSA watching the sheeple submit to indignity without protest always makes them hard, and c) now that it's proven they don't work, now something *else* can be bought that will make some oligarch richer.

So it goes, in the Soviet States of America...

-- Badtux the Sovok Penguin

Posted by BadTux at 12/12/2010 10:13:00 AM
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