Hi all

What do board members (and Penn if he has the time) think of this new security system being tried at Manchester airport

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8303983.stm

I draw your attention to the part about a clear black outline of the passengers genitals being visible.

Cheers

Jamie

"These two months at Plymouth
were the most miserable which
I ever spent" - Charles Darwin

Hi Jamie,

I forwarded it to Penn and he said:

"And, I love people being naked, but I hate people being forced.

Always naked, never forced.

Everyone always."

Sincerely,
Audrey



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Thanks Mofo and Penn.

It was going on for a couple of days before they decided that it wasn't approriate to put children through the scanner.

Cheers

Jamie

"These two months at Plymouth
were the most miserable which
I ever spent" - Charles Darwin

You know there are these fake.... man bits that some women (I will use the term "Drag King") use to give them the appearance in the pants of a penis' profile.

I ever go to an airport that has this, I'm wearing one of those.

What's really scary is reading the responses to the article. About half the people who responded think these machines are wonderful. "Big Brother can do whatever they want to us, just keep us safe!" This is the attitude that allows totalitarianism to come to power. Sheeple like this scare the living hell out of me.

I flatly refuse to do a naked scan. People can't seem to keep my name, phone number or any other information private, so there's no way I trust them to keeps my pocket images private. And the comments on that article, privacy is secondary to safety, those people need their homes randomly searched for dangerous and undesireable items. Safety, after all, is more important than privacy. Where do we draw the line anymore? By the time the sheep stand up and say "Now that really is too much" we'll be living in something straight out of Orwell. And the terrorists won't only have won, they'll have our credit card numbers and nude scans.

It is better than being patted down. Plus it could be faster. We all look the same naked.

If enough people are willing to go through such a scanner then they will probably end up a fixture in larger airports where there is a lot of people-traffic to deal with. However, there will always be plenty of people who refuse to be scanned in this way for a number of reasons, be it embarrassment or protest at infringement of rights, and nobody should be forced to be subjected to the scans. I guess the only solution is two lanes at security so that those who object to the scans can opt for the pat-down.