Turns out that, despite the assurances by the Official Powers that the images taken by these new scanners (that basically render you naked) are immediately destroyed once they (finish laughing and) figure out you’re not a terrorist, there’s already been a case where a Indian movie star had his scan printed out and handed around Heathrow like party favours.
And it’s only gonna get worse from here, folks.
And we’ve brought this on ourselves. We can’t bark when the master says “Be scared of terrorism” and dutifully get freaked out WAY out of proportion to the actual danger and threat posed by terrorism and scream at our elected representatives for more security, and then be surprised when their ready-made solution is a wee bit invasive.
Talk about “let the bears pay the bear tax”! What did we expect “more security” would mean? Just some magic invisible effect of “more” that wouldn’t slow down the security line or maybe violate our person in some way?
Maybe all the politicians needed to do was go away for a little while then come back and say “OK, there’s more now!” and we would have gone “Phew!” and been satisfied.
“You know the amount of security we had before? Well, we have more than that now. And not just more, but LOTS more. Lots and LOTS. We have SO MUCH now, it’s not even funny. ”
Oh, thank god. Now to move on to the next media-induced hysteria. OMG OUR KIDS ARE SEXTING IN CLASS!
Still, the article does mention one thing which I hadn’t thought of and which might just be the weapon to use against this kind of scanning.
Adonis was forced to address privacy concerns following reports that the images produced by the scanners broke child pornography laws in the UK.
Uh, good point. Body scanners = naked children on tap.
Easy fix though : just don’t scan children. Sure, it’s possible that some terrorist could load their kid with C4 but I think people would be willing to take that risk in order to keep the naked-childrens taboo intact.
Oh, and that quote above brings us to the last little thing about this story :
UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said last week
Excuse me? LORD ADONIS? That’s not a UK Transport Minister, that’s a gay superhero. Sounds like someone you’d find at a chic party at Ozymandias’ mansion.
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Naked body scanners abused? Never!
New clothing-negating body scanners at airports being used to get naked pictures of celebs
Turns out that, despite the assurances by the Official Powers that the images taken by these new scanners (that basically render you naked) are immediately destroyed once they (finish laughing and) figure out you’re not a terrorist, there’s already been a case where a Indian movie star had his scan printed out and handed around Heathrow like party favours.
And it’s only gonna get worse from here, folks.
And we’ve brought this on ourselves. We can’t bark when the master says “Be scared of terrorism” and dutifully get freaked out WAY out of proportion to the actual danger and threat posed by terrorism and scream at our elected representatives for more security, and then be surprised when their ready-made solution is a wee bit invasive.
Talk about “let the bears pay the bear tax”! What did we expect “more security” would mean? Just some magic invisible effect of “more” that wouldn’t slow down the security line or maybe violate our person in some way?
Maybe all the politicians needed to do was go away for a little while then come back and say “OK, there’s more now!” and we would have gone “Phew!” and been satisfied.
“You know the amount of security we had before? Well, we have more than that now. And not just more, but LOTS more. Lots and LOTS. We have SO MUCH now, it’s not even funny. ”
Oh, thank god. Now to move on to the next media-induced hysteria. OMG OUR KIDS ARE SEXTING IN CLASS!
Still, the article does mention one thing which I hadn’t thought of and which might just be the weapon to use against this kind of scanning.
Uh, good point. Body scanners = naked children on tap.
Easy fix though : just don’t scan children. Sure, it’s possible that some terrorist could load their kid with C4 but I think people would be willing to take that risk in order to keep the naked-childrens taboo intact.
Oh, and that quote above brings us to the last little thing about this story :
Excuse me? LORD ADONIS? That’s not a UK Transport Minister, that’s a gay superhero. Sounds like someone you’d find at a chic party at Ozymandias’ mansion.
Tags: privacy, security, terrorism, travel
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