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Old Sep 11, 2010, 5:36 pm
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Originally Posted by Wimpie
How about a click counter on:

http://dontscan.me
http://dontscan.us
http://nudeoscope.com

Please - I have been directing traffic to these sites and it would be interesting to see how much activity we get. ^
For the Nude-O-Scope sites, the daily average hits for my account (which includes other things) has jumped from the high 4,000s to 6600 in September. I'll see if I can get more details from the site logs.
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Old Sep 12, 2010, 6:14 am
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Originally Posted by MikeMpls
For the Nude-O-Scope sites, the daily average hits for my account (which includes other things) has jumped from the high 4,000s to 6600 in September. I'll see if I can get more details from the site logs.
The dontscan.me and dontscan.us sites are running around 1K hits daily, a bit under on the weekends.

So far it's come from word of mouth, since we haven't been linked on digg, reddit, fark or any of the others.
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Old Sep 12, 2010, 8:06 am
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Originally Posted by mozgytog
The dontscan.me and dontscan.us sites are running around 1K hits daily, a bit under on the weekends.

So far it's come from word of mouth, since we haven't been linked on digg, reddit, fark or any of the others.
I actually did create a story on reddit for nudeoscope.com Here is the link to that page.

http://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comme...g_through_the/
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Old Sep 12, 2010, 8:27 am
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Originally Posted by fs2k2isfun
I actually did create a story on reddit for nudeoscope.com Here is the link to that page.

http://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comme...g_through_the/
And dontscan.me is on Digg:

http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/airpo..._scanners_home
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Old Sep 12, 2010, 12:49 pm
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Time to come out of the closet: I've owned the ThousandsStandingAround.org/com/net domain names for the last year but never had the time to develop them fully.

I've axed the PhpBB that was there and replaced it with a simple list of comments and testimonials from web. The purpose is twofold:
  1. Provide search engines with yet another place to find examples of WBI & search abuses.
  2. Help people understand that they are not alone in their thoughts & feelings on what's happening in airport security lanes.

Enjoy!
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Old Sep 12, 2010, 3:28 pm
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Originally Posted by MikeMpls
Time to come out of the closet: I've owned the ThousandsStandingAround.org/com/net domain names for the last year but never had the time to develop them fully.

I've axed the PhpBB that was there and replaced it with a simple list of comments and testimonials from web. The purpose is twofold:
  1. Provide search engines with yet another place to find examples of WBI & search abuses.
  2. Help people understand that they are not alone in their thoughts & feelings on what's happening in airport security lanes.

Enjoy!

Don't forget to leave the box of mothballs in there and take a shower, you are probably a bit dusty...
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Old Sep 13, 2010, 3:10 pm
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Public Awareness Web Sites
These are the known web sites to popularize:

http://www.nudeoscope.com
http://scrapthescanners.wordpress.com/
http://ThousandsStandingAround.com
http://dontscan.us
http://dontscan.me


Any more?
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 7:23 am
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Opinion from Europe
Airport security has a thoroughly bad reputation among air travellers, and the inconvenience of intrusive body searching may lead some passengers to choose alternative modes of transport which have less intrusive security procedures
A complete rethink in the way security measures are approached ..... is required
^^

http://www.eraa.org/newsroom/news-re...ocus-on-intent
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 7:46 am
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Originally Posted by coachrowsey
^ I like them both. If you must fly refuse the "strip search machine". Best to just refuse to fly, solves the problem.
But if you refuse to fly, you need to notify the airline each time that you didn't buy a ticket- explain the trip, lost revenue, and reason why they lost the revenue.

I agree, 100 such letters won't accomplish anything, but 1000 will start getting noticed.
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 11:17 am
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"Still kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his hands over my crotch, under my testicles, and in the fold between my legs. I felt him cup my testicles and run his fingers from my rear orifice down the back of my balls."

How can someone cup your testicles while using the back of their hand for the patdown? Does the TSA employ boneless people?
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 2:17 pm
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Italian civil aviation authority: body-scanners tested, no good results
ENAC (Italian civil aviation authority) rejects the body-scanner. The tests have not brought the desired results, ENAC president, Vito Riggio, said this morning at a press conference. .
Duh!

http://www.avionews.com/index.php?co...ante=index.php
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 2:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Wimpie
How about a click counter on:

http://dontscan.me
http://dontscan.us
http://nudeoscope.com

Please - I have been directing traffic to these sites and it would be interesting to see how much activity we get. ^
I'll add one. I've also got nudeoscope setup with Google Analytics.

# Referring Sites 693.00 (70.28%)
# Direct Traffic 293.00 (29.72%)

* 986 - Visits
* 1,136 - Pageviews
* 1.15 - Pages/Visit

Bounce rate is pretty high:



* 91.89%
Bounce Rate

* 00:00:18
Avg. Time on Site

* 94.02%
% New Visits


Originally Posted by Wimpie
Good for them!
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 9:25 pm
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Originally Posted by FXWizard
"Still kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his hands over my crotch, under my testicles, and in the fold between my legs. I felt him cup my testicles and run his fingers from my rear orifice down the back of my balls."

How can someone cup your testicles while using the back of their hand for the patdown? Does the TSA employ boneless people?
To make him really uncomfortable, you should have giggled, smiled at him and said "it's been a long time since I felt this good, if your this good in public I bet your even better in private" and then a quick wink at him.
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Old Sep 14, 2010, 9:59 pm
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European Regions Airline Association criticises full body scanners
http://www.traveldaily.co.uk/AsiaPac...?Section=20303

Some people are beginning to think more rationally..
A small step in the right direction.
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Old Sep 15, 2010, 6:59 am
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Originally Posted by Wimpie
"We tested all of body-scanners systems"
Well, there's your problem. You're not supposed to test them, don't these foreigners know anything about security ?

Paging the Chertoff Group (ptooey).
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