You’ve Been Punk’d


Thus saith the Vodkapundit unto the TSA. And he includes a link to the viral video showing how an engineer got metal past the scanners.

The TSA’s Baghdad Blogger Bob” responds the there is nothing to see here. Move along—after we finish groping you.

 

UPDATE—(From Slashdot) 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.

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