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I can't wait till we have to travel in paper smocks, chained to our seats like the criminals we truly are.
I wonder if being chained to our seats would reduce the risk of the airlines physically dragging us off of oversold flights?
If the TSA was shutdown entirely leading to terrorists blew up 10 planes a year in the US, flying would still be as safe as it was in the 1960s. http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/U-S-commercial-airlines...
I flew out of MCI (American Airlines) on Sunday evening, confirmed this definitely happened. They asked for books, papers, notebooks, etc. However, I disagree with one point in the article: I didn't witness them "scanning" the documents with a scanner. They went through the Xray machine in a separate bin, much like your laptop does. Perhaps I missed something.
scanning as in screening. not scan to pdf.
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They seem to like dense things to be in their own bin. Books are pretty dense.
I always presumed that they wanted the laptops in a separate bin because they were comparing them to a set of known images (of commercially sold laptops), but perhaps I'm giving them too much credit.
Maybe they're looking for flash paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
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SFO also doesn't have TSA screeners, and I believe the agents' uniforms actually don't have TSA badges. (Not sure about Kansas City, but I'd be surprised if any non-TSA agents had TSA badges...)
Is this a recent development?
Maybe some intelligence that people are inserting sheets of metal foil into stacks of paper to attenuate the x-rays and hide something underneath? Assuming the airport X-ray machines aren't that powerful, I would guess that 15+ sheets of foil inserted into a book or similar might mask something underneath it fairly well?
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It's true. Turns out blue shirts can be worn by just about anybody. Here's a story from last summer about the private security at Kansas City Airport: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article79795177.html
Oh interesting. I am curious is the experience of the privatized screening any better? Or is the amount of humiliation, infantilizing and browbeating of regular honest people about the same as the non-privatized TSA? There was big uproar about privatizing the TSA about a year ago when the time spent in lines was growing even more excessive. That narrative about privatizing seemed to go dark. Is the Kansas City Airpor…
Of course MCI had a distributed security and gates, so they are smaller and thus quieter.
I can't wait till we have to travel in paper smocks, chained to our seats like the criminals we truly are.