Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan
by Quarrelsome on Monday October 18, 2010 @02:22PM
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I'm not sure that I'm convinced that technology is really the answer here. Sure it can work if everyone is scanned and the monitors watched but will that always 100% be the case?
I've worked on scanning systems before for security purposes (festival id tags, I appreciate, a lesser concern) and there are almost always ways around the system, be it accidental or intentional. But if those ways round are abused the technology completely fails to fulfil its intended purpose if that one person is missed.
The issue with airport security and kabooms is can certainly be just that one person who has the kaboom and such an instance would take us right back to square one.
As a brief example might I state that diplomats have immunity from these scanning systems and are allowed to bypass them.
I've worked on scanning systems before for security purposes (festival id tags, I appreciate, a lesser concern) and there are almost always ways around the system, be it accidental or intentional. But if those ways round are abused the technology completely fails to fulfil its intended purpose if that one person is missed.
The issue with airport security and kabooms is can certainly be just that one person who has the kaboom and such an instance would take us right back to square one.
As a brief example might I state that diplomats have immunity from these scanning systems and are allowed to bypass them.