It's been an interesting week. This quiet little home on FT has become a very busy place. I've never seen so many people gathered around TVs at airports to watch CNN reports than I did last night at MDW when Anderson Cooper did the NoS piece.
Is this being overblown? Maybe, but I don't think people are accurately focusing on the prospective health risks associated with the scanners. For me, I fly about 50 weeks a year, with anywhere from two to four trips through security a week. If I were to use the back scatter scanners every trip through security, I'd be exposed to an extra 200-400 minutes of radiation a year. Add that up over a 10 year period and you get A LOT of extra radiation dosage. It's just not worth it to me.
Originally Posted by
eyecue
Well just last year someone tried again with an IED in the underwear. You cannot discount that.
Why has it taken the TSA ~11 months to attempt to "fix" this security loophole?