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Jan 05, 2010 16:08

The Canadian Government has purchased strip-search airport scanners and hopes to have them in some major airports as early as next week.I loathe these things. Like most other airport security measures, I don't think they'll actually make anyone safer, and in addition to punishing all airline travelers with another hoop to jump through, these have ( Read more... )

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ravenkat January 5 2010, 23:14:45 UTC
I don't think it's really that big a deal. You can't really identify someone from them and I would find it much less invasive than being patted down.

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lordmork January 5 2010, 23:20:11 UTC
Yeah but you never fly anywhere. And it's not so much the specifics as the fact that its an erosion of privacy. If the airport authority is allowed to take blurry, poor-quality nudes of anyone, eventually someone will want machines that take higher quality, or that show the face, or to keep the photos.

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ravenkat January 5 2010, 23:21:29 UTC
I would still prefer that to ever being pat down *shudders*

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lordmork January 5 2010, 23:24:06 UTC
I don't particularly enjoy that either, but at least when that happens there's no potential of a record of it.

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ravenkat January 5 2010, 23:24:41 UTC
OMG what if someone had a sex toy hidden in one of their body parts :D

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reaverta January 6 2010, 16:39:38 UTC
OH MY GOD ITS A BOMB QUICK GET OUT THE GLOVES ITS CAVITY SEARCH TIME

(Pity this is only partially jesting, isn't it?)

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ravenkat January 6 2010, 16:41:17 UTC
And then the porn music starts.

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reaverta January 7 2010, 02:10:03 UTC
*collapses laughing*

Well played. :)

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ravenkat January 7 2010, 02:11:41 UTC
*bows*

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