TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures? 465
OverTheGeicoE writes "When anti-TSA activist Jonathan Corbett exposed a severe weakness in TSA's body scanners, one would expect the story to attract a lot of media attention. Apparently TSA is attempting to stop reporters from covering the story. According to Corbett, at least one reporter has been 'strongly cautioned' by TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz not to cover the story. If TSA is worried that this is new information they need to suppress to keep it away from terrorists, that horse may have left the barn years ago. Corbett's demonstration may just be confirmation of a 2010 paper in the Journal of Transportation Security that concluded that 'an object such as a wire or a boxcutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible' to X-ray scanners."
TSA has this covered. (Score:5, Funny)
Much like the underwear bomber, TSA has this all planned out.
1. Allow terrorist onboard with a weapon hidden at his side.
2. Civilians on plane stop terrorist when he attempts to take over plane.
3. TSA announces that the system worked.
These "reporters" are clearly interfering with step #1.
Re:Warned about what? (Score:3, Funny)
BS? Barbara Streisand? (Score:5, Funny)
I call BS.
I was wondering who would bring up the Barbara Streisand Effect first.
So now, Barbara Streisand is a Terrorist!
Re:hello tsa: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Easy fix? (Score:5, Funny)
Honestly, I feel bad for the people who work around the machines. There's no shielding. When TSA agents start getting cancer, part of me will feel bad for them. But part of me will be laughing hysterically.
Re:They're hardly perfect (Score:5, Funny)
And no need to even mention ceramics or the fancier plastics, that shit is totally harmless.
Re:Warned about what? (Score:5, Funny)
But I thought that if we see something, we're supposed to say something?
Re:Warned about what? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BS? Barbara Streisand? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Warned about what? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:They're hardly perfect (Score:5, Funny)
I typed out an entire response about the Bronze Age before I realized you were being sarcastic... My sensor is busted today I guess.
Re:Warned about what? (Score:5, Funny)
That's inhumane. Nobody deserves light opera.
Re:BS? Barbara Streisand? (Score:5, Funny)
Gee, you notice that now? I heard her sing, that was proof enough!
Re:Easy fix? (Score:5, Funny)
But how do we get every TSA worker to swallow it?
Re:Warned about what? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Warned about what? (Score:4, Funny)
Eh, lots of countries prove you can call yourself a republic and be a dictatorship at the same time.
Anyway, since we have a two-party dictatorship we're obviously 50% more free than a single-party dictatorship like North Korea.