Former DHS security systems designers here.
If you want to complain about body scanners, complain about the security theater, lack of privacy, or back-scratching of security industry lobbyists.
Complaining about non-ionizing radiation is RFK-level conspiracy bullshit.
Didn’t the original full body scanners used at airports use backscatter X-rays, which are ionizing radiation ?
I believe these were mostly replaced by millimeter-wave scanners, and are not used anymore (even banned in some countries) but a lot of the initial pushback and debate surrounding the scanners when they were first introduced was about potential health risks of repeated X-ray exposure from those scanners, and so the idea of ionizing radiation exposure persists to this day in many people’s minds.
That radiation isn’t going to harm you, let’s not get on that dumb train.
It’s still degrading. Stand on this platform for no reason other than fucking spread your legs and raise your hands like the worthless criminal you are while we x-ray and photograph you, asshole.
Ah, classic David Dees.
I got stuck on “mole-station” for far too long before I figured it all out…
I keep getting “randomly” selected for explosives testing.
Or, if you’re disabled, you get both
Don’t the body scanners allow them to see you in the nude? I thought I read an article about this years ago.
I love the tsa. Where else can I find out if I’m a terrorist. I go through life not knowing, uncertain
