Originally Posted by
GoingAway
we do have the right to refuse the new scanner, don't we?
if it's anything like my experience with refusing to go through the puffer, you are in for a real treat. You will be told your options are to go through the puffer or undergo a full-on secondary. If you go for the secondary, the screeners take extra care to swab almost everything in your bags. They also seem to employ some elementary school level psychological profiling techniques at this point mixed in w/ a bit of good cop bad cop if they can't suss you out.
I'm going to have to post all this info on Al-Qaidatalk.com one of these days.