TSA now offers you a choice

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Former DHS security systems designers here.

  If you want to complain about body scanners, complain about the security theater, lack of privacy, or back-scratching of security industry lobbyists.

  Complaining about non-ionizing radiation is RFK-level conspiracy bullshit.

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  • ylph@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Didn’t the original full body scanners used at airports use backscatter X-rays, which are ionizing radiation ?

    I believe these were mostly replaced by millimeter-wave scanners, and are not used anymore (even banned in some countries) but a lot of the initial pushback and debate surrounding the scanners when they were first introduced was about potential health risks of repeated X-ray exposure from those scanners, and so the idea of ionizing radiation exposure persists to this day in many people’s minds.

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    • saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s true but the dose is incredibly low, about 0.03–0.1 μSv per scan. This is the equivalent to a couple minutes of background exposure or eating a banana. A flight new york to LA is 40μSv.

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• BetaBlake@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That radiation isn’t going to harm you, let’s not get on that dumb train.

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  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s still degrading. Stand on this platform for no reason other than fucking spread your legs and raise your hands like the worthless criminal you are while we x-ray and photograph you, asshole.

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    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You made a mistake at the end there, it should be “photograph your asshole”

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    • JustPedro@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So we are just going to ignore the fact that there is literally no way to see if a person is trying to sneak something to the plane without x-ray or inspection?

      Just for the record, we are removing our shoes during the inspection because of the Richard Reid incident.

      We are removing laptop from the baggage because some people tried (and even succeed) to sneak the explosive devices in them.

      We are being x-raed because of hundreds of people tried to sneak different things and substances in their internals.

      So yes, I believe that every person MUST be treated as a criminal in Airport, because one person is enought to take hundreds of lives.

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They made me stand there for a second and hold my hands out, it was the worst experience of my life. I don’t even feel human anymore. I finally know how the Uighur people must feel.

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• CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we all chose the free TSA massage we could probably get rid of the radiation treatment

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  • zovits@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s no way anyone could tell if a person got the so-called “radiation treatment” or not. Not even if one could analyse every single atom in the human body, because there are no changes due to that process.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, whatever no name corp has a fully loaded container of whatever material in the cargo hold under the aircraft that probably wasn’t scanned, screened or checked because the airport, airline and loading companies all work on a system of trust in order to ship and load everything as fast as possible.

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• Nemean_lion@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I dont have to come in with a rock hard dick, but they have to touch it.

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  • Batman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ain’t gay if it’s tsa

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• m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always go pat down. I prefer to understand the scope of the privacy violation way also I think it’s good to have a physical reminder of the ways our privacy is invaded.

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• FaceofBeaux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I got stuck on “mole-station” for far too long before I figured it all out…

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• Arbiter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah, classic David Dees.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or, if you’re disabled, you get both

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• Lorindol@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And it has Derek Smalls in the backgroung waiting for his turn.

  Absolutely brilliant.

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• terminhell@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I keep getting “randomly” selected for explosives testing.

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• SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To be fair they’ll get so underfunded they won’t work properly.

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  • kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TSA never did work properly. Testers were ablke to get weapons and explosives through tsa 95% of the time. TSA is purely security theater.

    nbcnews.com/…/investigation-breaches-us-airports-…

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    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Any chance you’d know what would improve things?

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• rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t the body scanners allow them to see you in the nude? I thought I read an article about this years ago.

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• Batman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love the tsa. Where else can I find out if I’m a terrorist. I go through life not knowing, uncertain

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