Originally Posted by
N1003U
Manual searches have always struck me as a more practical solution than the (mostly feeble) attempts at automating the process. The existing technologies are just not up to the task.
BTW, I have been in the US for the past couple of weeks and I don't know if it got any press coverage in the EU, but the TSA is quietly getting rid of its full body scanners (both x-ray, and radar-based).
On one of the legs in the US I decided to "opt out", with the consequence that every inch of my body was touched with painstakingly slow progress. I wonder how we could ever be safe with the previous patdown... The hole thing was clearly set up to discourage anyone from opting out, and as far as I could see I was the only one at any of the checkpoints I passed. Even other passengers found the process comical.
So the reason why they are getting rid of the scanners must be a different one.
HTB.