Sounds like a good way to fight back. The US is doing this too sometimes. I don't really see a reason to search everyone's phone unless there's a reasonable suspicion and be allowed to watch them as they go through it. Just check if they have a weapon or not. If no weapon, don't see why further searching is needed. I saw another article about them wanting to scan people's papers they take with them. If they keep this stuff up, I think they will destroy the tourism industry and maybe more people will care.

I have sadly seen people commenting on similar articles on HN about how they don't ever plan to visit the US over these searches. Even a NASA engineer got searched.

Plus TSA has been known to steal also. I hope private jets become cheaper some day to avoid all this, well there are jet sharing programs. Drive straight to the runway and take off :) I guess if you have a huge company like Google or Apple, a private jet is basically free with all the write offs. Probably boosts productivity without all the waiting in lines.

I'm a US born citizen and I don't even look forward to flying. I haven't yet in my life but do want to fly and travel more someday. Every single day lately there's aways some news story about some major airline messing with people, or some story is talked about back to back on every news program involving the TSA.

Politicians are exempt. Seriously.

Diplomats are exempt, but a random Member of Parliament is not.