Originally Posted by Bart
Am I oversimplifying here? I don't know. I do know that these same machines can be recalibrated to detect all sorts of drugs by changing the definitions algorithms. We do not use them as drug-detection machines, but they can certainly be used in that capacity. What these machines do is alert on whatever you define for them to alert on; hence, my confusion about why the call for "liquid explosive detectors" when it's just a simple matter of recalibrating the machine.
^ I was talking to a friend who is one of those "Air passengers are on the front lines on the war on terra" types (nevermind the police, or TSA, or postal workers who feel the same way). Anyway, as far as he's concerned, there should be 100% screening of every item going onto a plane...bags, cargo, people everything. And by screening he means x-ray and ETD. BTW he works in law enforcement (but not a sworn officer) and yeah, he travels by air no more than 2 times a year. The argument that such measures would effectively kill business travel and probably commercial airlines in general? He doesn't see it..."people will just have to adjust how they do business then."
