For the past couple of weeks Matt Drudge has become mister outspoken advocate of privacy, going after the TSA for the full body scanners and pat downs at airports. Today he decided to post this headline: What’s really interesting about this is how the right were the big defenders of these techniques prior to January […]
This was only a matter of time: TSA screener Rolando Negrin is facing assault charges in a case that involves the controversial, full body scanners being adopted in airports as part of increased security measures. The images produced by the powerful x-ray scanners–detailed enough to show breast implants–have been compared to “virtual strip-searching.” Negrin reportedly […]
This is something interesting that I never thought of. It’s from the Guardian, so it is in the U.K., but I bet the same thing would apply here: The rapid introduction of full body scanners at British airports threatens to breach child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children, the Guardian […]
With all the debate going on about the full body scanners, I think I have come up with a great solution. Why don’t we just waterboard all airline passengers? Think about it: Waterboarding provides accurate and reliable intel Waterboarding isn’t torture. Waterboarding is nothing but a “dip in the pool”. So let’s drop the body […]