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A comment on TSA's X-Ray Nude Body Scanners Output 50% More Radiation Than Admitted to by TSA. Parent comment

Re:TSA's X-Ray Nude Body Scanners Output 50% More Radiation ... by joshfraser on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @12:18PM (#8325264)
I 100% agree that my feelings should be irrelevant to security policies. But the precautions taken by the TSA are completely disproportionate to the amount of risk we face while flying. It's a total joke to say that it's anything but "security theatre". That feeling of security is really all we're buying with all that money and inconvenience.
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Re:TSA's X-Ray Nude Body Scanners Output 50% More Radiation ... by JadeNB on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:28PM (#8326914)
I agree; but what I meant here was that praising a different set-up for making you feel more secure risks implicitly suggesting that this feeling is the goal (rather than at best a pleasant by-product), thus playing into the whole security-theatre game.
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