Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan

Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by tptacek on Monday October 18, 2010 @03:29PM (#1804793)

Normally, I'd agree with this. Here, I strongly disagree. Strip search opt-outs cost time and money. The fact that most people aren't opting out is what allows the TSA the fig leaf of "it's optional", a fig leaf that will eventually drop once people acclimatize themselves to the idea of minimum-wage-earning TSA agents handling nude pictures of them.

The time to force the issue over this (by making "optional" strip searches prohibitively expensive) is now.

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Re:Pilot Stands Up To TSA And Refuses Full Body Scan by philwelch on Monday October 18, 2010 @03:48PM (#1804872)

Hey, if you want to DDoS the TSA sometime, I'm in. Get a bunch of people together on the same day and clog up a major airport (or, more ambitiously, all the major airports) by going through the opt-out line sounds effective. When it's just me and I don't personally care, it's a lot less convincing.

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