Viral Video About Body Scanners

Re:Viral Video About Body Scanners by betterth on Thursday March 08, 2012 @10:40AM (#3680065)

Exactly. Someone got assigned to "blog duty" at the TSA, of which TSA management has no idea what a blog is, or why it is important, but there is a regulation somewhere, or a rule, that says the TSA must maintain a blog. So someone maintains a blog.

This is my estimation of the situation.

A Hanlon's Razor moment: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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Re:Viral Video About Body Scanners by fluidcruft on Thursday March 08, 2012 @12:21PM (#3680609)

I think there's probably an element of: "Bob, we need you to write something now about this video everyone is emailing each other" and Bob not having any authority, information or resources to actually address anything.

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Re:Viral Video About Body Scanners by jakejake on Friday March 09, 2012 @04:36AM (#3683521)

Or it could have been carefully written for a specific target audience (of which HN readers are not a part). Mind control!

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Re:Viral Video About Body Scanners by betterth on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:50AM (#3698663)

Switch razors to Occam's Razor: all other things being equal, the idea that makes the fewest assumptions is better.

Either the government is engaging in a disinformation campaign that is so broad and so pervasive that even the blogs at the TSA are involved...

Or it's some idiot at an ineffective government organization who screwed up.

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Re:Viral Video About Body Scanners by zyeljanee on Thursday March 08, 2012 @12:45PM (#3680725)

But if you read carefully its like there is some truth in it. Nowadays people are doing crazy things without thinkig about the consequences.

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