Posts tagged: TSA
As you stand in endless lines this holiday season, here’s a comforting thought: all those security measures accomplish nothing, at enormous cost. That’s the conclusion of Charles C. Mann, who put the T.S.A. to the test with the help of one of America’s top security experts.
The logic of the TSA in comic form.
Via BoingBoing
The new “naked scanners” at the airport can’t spot stuff inside body cavities, meaning that any terrorist with an explosive buttplug can wander right through, his unusual gait notwidthstanding. Why would such limited machines have been bought at such massive expense, given the inevitable outcry over their invasiveness? Because well-connected lobbyists worked awfully hard to convince politicians otherwise. [Washington Examiner]
Funny fake book cover.
Via BoingBoing.
Wayne sez, “Miami airport screeners made fun of one of their own after seeing his small penis on their imaging scan. It ended up with small penis beating someone else with a steel baton.”Screener Rolando Negrin’s private body parts were observed by his Transportation Security Administration colleagues conducting training on the airport’s full-body imaging machines.A year of joking culminated on Tuesday night, when Negrin attacked the co-worker at an employee parking lot, according to an arrest report.
Negrin “stated he could not take the jokes any more and lost his mind,” said the report, made public Thursday. He is charged with aggravated battery.
The Atlantic takes a look at TSA’s airport “security theater.”
