The TSA is going to do a safety study of the backscatter x-ray machines. Just kidding!

[thewayne]

First the director says they are, then he says the TSA Inspector General says they're safe, so he isn't. The problem is that these machines are not regulated by the FDA since they're not used in medical treatment. There are a huge number of unanswered questions, and unless the TSA is forced to answer them, they probably never will be

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[silveradept]

Yay for nobody looking into whether the security features are safe.

[thewayne]

But they stop terrorists! It doesn't matter if they're safe, they stop terrorists! Thus, we win!

*sigh*

They wanted to backscatter me when I flew to DC last July, I declined and got groped. Returning from DC was just a pass through a magnetometer.

[silveradept]

They still don't seem to understand that if someone gets to the scatter become seeks it's detected there, it's a failure of the security system.

[silveradept]

That should be "gets to the scatter machine before they are detected, then it's a failure."