I've never felt more like I was living in a prequel to Idiocracy than I did while reading that.
One imagines the Idiocracy intro showing how TSA evoled into TGB (Things Go Boom).
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#12If their security is as good as their blogging it's time to consider travelling by bus. Also their "20 layers of security" chart[1] is an unintentionally hilarious masterpiece. Note the arrow they've drawn circumventing every layer of security apart from passengers . So really, we can't say they didn't warn us. [1] http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/index.shtm
The authorites are working on that angle, too. ;)
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/20/nation/la-na-terror-...
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#13If this weren't on a .gov site I'd think this was satire. As it is, it's just scary and sad.
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#14"Body scanners don't work, but we do other stuff too." Jesus.
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#15> It is completely safe and the vast majority use a generic image that completely addresses privacy concerns. Well that makes me feel great. Guess they decided they been caught blatantly lying on that point before so they decided to reiterate it, just with sufficiently vague qualifiers.
"Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field"
Isn't it 30% effective in auditor tests.... oh wait you have a post that claims 30% is inaccurate but doesn't actually disprove the figure or provide accurate figures: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/12/70-detection-failure-rate-being....
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#16Tax payers money...billions...not sure what testing they did before buying or they knew it and still bought them because they got their cut.
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#17If their security is as good as their blogging it's time to consider travelling by bus. Also their "20 layers of security" chart[1] is an unintentionally hilarious masterpiece. Note the arrow they've drawn circumventing every layer of security apart from passengers . So really, we can't say they didn't warn us. [1] http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/index.shtm
When I saw the 20 layers chart, I thought it was a troll blog because the graphic looks like it has planes crashing into towers.
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#18"We're actually safe, I'm not going to give any evidence of this, just trust me".
Seems fair.
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#19So, this is where our tax payers' money is going? Sigh.
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#20That last paragraph is a doozy.
Completely addresses privacy concerns; is completely safe; oh and hey, it's completely optional, assuming you don't prefer molestation and possibly randomly missing your flight.