budgenator wrote:
Asmodeus wrote:
These scanners are wrong. It's an invasion of privacy.
Chemical sensors can detect explosives and other contraband, foreign policy can do the rest.
1. PETN is next to impossible to detect with chemical sensors
These sensors don't scan shoes. There's a way around any sysem.
budgenator wrote:
2 the scanners are voluntary, I predict when people are faced with a choice between a 2 min line for the millimeter-wave scanner and a 45 minute line for the full body frisk for a flight that boards in 30 minutes the scanner is going to be the preferred choice.
It's why I was suggesting an alternative. Personally I think The current stuff in place (bag xray, metal detector gates) is enough.