12" razor blades on a plane - WTF, TSA?
Mythbuster's Adam Savage went through a TSA nekkid-scan in May and TSA missed the two twelve-inch razor blades he was mistakenly carrying in his jacket.
(From Ben Kuchera at Ars Technica: "If the TSA thinks you can hijack a plane with saline solution and nail clippers, Savage's 12" razor blades are the equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Since the blades weren't anywhere near Savage's privates, they likely would have been missed by the pat-down as well.")
Don't you feel safer?
Also, regarding TSA's alleged "2-minutes of flight radiation exposure" from http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/12/body.scanning.radiation/index.html:
"Anyone who flies is exposed to increased cosmic radiation due to high altitudes, and many pilots experience this exposure almost daily. The TSA says each backscatter scan emits radiation equivalent to just two minutes of cosmic radiation at altitude.
Peter Rez, a professor of physics at Arizona State University, disagrees. Rez has independently calculated the radiation doses of backscatter scanners using the images produced by the machines.
"I came to the conclusion that although low, the dose was higher than they said," he said.
Based on his analysis, Rez estimates each scan produces radiation equivalent to 10 to 20 minutes of flight."
(And it goes into your body 1/4 inch. Your skin, eyeballs, & what is directly under your skin - is getting the full impact. Skin cancer survivors, how does this make you feel?)
(From Ben Kuchera at Ars Technica: "If the TSA thinks you can hijack a plane with saline solution and nail clippers, Savage's 12" razor blades are the equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Since the blades weren't anywhere near Savage's privates, they likely would have been missed by the pat-down as well.")
Don't you feel safer?
Also, regarding TSA's alleged "2-minutes of flight radiation exposure" from http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/12/body.scanning.radiation/index.html:
"Anyone who flies is exposed to increased cosmic radiation due to high altitudes, and many pilots experience this exposure almost daily. The TSA says each backscatter scan emits radiation equivalent to just two minutes of cosmic radiation at altitude.
Peter Rez, a professor of physics at Arizona State University, disagrees. Rez has independently calculated the radiation doses of backscatter scanners using the images produced by the machines.
"I came to the conclusion that although low, the dose was higher than they said," he said.
Based on his analysis, Rez estimates each scan produces radiation equivalent to 10 to 20 minutes of flight."
(And it goes into your body 1/4 inch. Your skin, eyeballs, & what is directly under your skin - is getting the full impact. Skin cancer survivors, how does this make you feel?)