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Old Sep 29, 2013, 3:02 am
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Originally Posted by ente_09
I posted this in a response on a topic but have thought about it since.
I must be missing something; the TSA can't be that stupidn.

Regarding these testing strips they use for you know what: don't they realize that any half intelligent terrorist will wear rubber gloves while doing his homework and be careful not to have his clothes come in contact with his goods?

I chose some indirect words so as to not be profiled by the NSF surveillance systems.
Is this a rhetorical question?

1. Terrorists are not half intelligent. They are imbecilic fanatics who are willing to murder innocent strangers who have never harmed them in any way, merely to advance their BS cause.
2. Whether they wear rubber, latex, or nitrile gloves while they construct an explosive device is irrelevent. There would still be enough chemical trace on them to be detected by an ETD swab.
3. Unfortunately, the ETD swabs don't detect explosives, they detect chemical compounds which are present in the most common explosives, and some of those compounds are also present in many innocuous consumer products, leading to many false positives.
4. What is NSF?
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