{"id":2423,"date":"2012-07-14T00:28:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T05:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2012-07-14T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T05:28:34","slug":"security-theatre-bodyscanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/07\/14\/security-theatre-bodyscanners","title":{"rendered":"security theatre: bodyscanners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally &#8220;opt-out&#8221; and head for a manual pat down by the TSA at airports in the USA. Today, I decided to try the bodyscanner at san francisco airport (SFO). I was tired from an active night of wine drinking &amp; mingling. I cleared all my pockets and proceeded to get scanned.<\/p>\n<p>Today I was wearing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B006AZUAYK\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=colincharles-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B006AZUAYK\">Dockers Mobile Pants<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=colincharles-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B006AZUAYK\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. This is the older model with two zippered pockets. After spending some three seconds in that machine with my hands up, I walked out to see that the image suggested I had something on me. It turns out that it picked up my zips on the mobile pants and required me to get a manual pat down. To make matters even more fun, they swabbed my hands for residue.<\/p>\n<p>I told the TSA agent that the machine is broken and he said that its very sensitive and is working. It picks up zips. I asked what about the regular zip for my pants. He had no answer.<\/p>\n<p>I guess there&#8217;s absolutely no point in doing this bodyscanner thing at all. I&#8217;ll continue getting my manual pat downs and pretend to enjoy it. I don&#8217;t care if they <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/29\/airport-scanners-are-safe-government-says\/\">claim its safe<\/a> either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally &#8220;opt-out&#8221; and head for a manual pat down by the TSA at airports in the USA. Today, I decided to try the bodyscanner at san francisco airport (SFO). I was tired from an active night of wine drinking &amp; mingling. I cleared all my pockets and proceeded to get scanned. Today I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-D5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}