Originally Posted by
chollie
No, shortly before they are off warranty, there will be a new, one-off threat that they coincidentally would not have detected. Equally coincidentally, a Chertoff client will happen to have a new piece of technology that will allegedly be capable of detecting the new threat. For a price, of course. I suspect it will be body-cavity related.
Two years should give Chertoff's clients enough time to roll out the NoS everywhere - just in time to be discovered to be obsolete.
Agreed. I outlined such in another thread too:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-view-wbi.html
The cost of the scanners is $$$$, maintenance $. They will want to spend for new toys, and perhaps the manufacturers will claim some sort of "privacy-enhanced" scanner to give to lobby-inspired contractors.
Here is the famous photo of Obama with the CEO of (parent company of) Rapiscan.
Originally Posted by
chollie
I wish they would just route anyone who is opting out (voluntary or medically involuntary) to a separate line. TSA would be afraid that would encourage opt-outs; like everyone else, they seem to forget that there are involuntary medical opt-outs.
No, no, no!!! You don't want this -- what they would do is make the opt-out scan line move really, really slowly. Or, if you get to the scanner and choose to opt out, they might force you to go to the END of the slow opt-out line. I feared they would do this on NOOD but they just turned them off instead.
Thus if you were running late for a critical business meeting you might HAVE to take the nudescope or miss a flight. Not cool. Delaying EVERYBODY for the ridiculous groping is the best strategy to encourage pushback, and hopefully change in policy.