Originally Posted by
Mega Boris
It just seems to me that the whole aspect of "security" is nonsensical if the people doing the screening aren't "secured" themselves.
Again, I know they do background checks on the employees, but as a trusted traveler, I've had background checks done on me. Why shouldn't I enjoy the same privileges as the TSA employee who doesn't get the screening.
Why are we paying good money to constantly be screening the same "trusted" people?
Scan them all or scan none.
I was in China recently and their version of airport security just feels so much better than ours. We go through a metal detector. They use a wand. Pat down on the areas that set things off.
What ever happened to the puffer devices? To me that seemed the best use of technology.
Found to be too unreliable for 'real world' & subject to too many breakdowns due to the dirty environment of an airport checkpoint-clogged up the sensors.
If memory serves, it's one of the many 'failures' listed in the recent Congressional report card on the TSA (there's a thread somewhere that links to the report), along w/the mind-boggling amount of gov't dollars wasted on the machines.