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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by rbanffy on Monday October 18, 2010 @06:56AM (#1802935)
The man is a pilot. If he ever intends to kidnap or blow up a plane, no amount of frisking will stop him.

What's the next step? Functional MRI?

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by michael_dorfman on Monday October 18, 2010 @06:58AM (#1802946)
So, anyone holding a pilot's ID card should get waived through security?
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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by limmeau on Monday October 18, 2010 @07:04AM (#1802964)
If a pilot thinks he needs explosives to crash a plane, he may be overlooking something.
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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by Devilboy on Monday October 18, 2010 @07:02AM (#1802953)
You just need to ID him, not search him. Check his badge, call it in if you're not sure, done.
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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by michael_dorfman on Monday October 18, 2010 @08:29AM (#1803172)
Congratulations. You've just introduced a single point of failure to the system: anyone with a badge forged well enough to fool a security guard now has carte blanche.
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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by tomjen3 on Monday October 18, 2010 @11:46AM (#1803909)
Not really - make all pilots have their badge authenticated at the security point with a computer fetching the image from a database and comparing it with:

1) the pilot 2) the picture of the id

Done.

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by rbanffy on Monday October 18, 2010 @10:41AM (#1803640)
Anyone who boards a plane as a pilot, or co-pilot, has pretty much charte blanche.
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