Why is the TSA Histrionic over Screen Shots?
 

It's pretty clear it doesn't matter who can see what on their precious screens, so why the trauma-drama over citizens taking photos?

If they really cared, it wouldn't be so darned easy to see the Sacred Screens in the first place.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/3838418.bin

Because the whole thing is one, big, terrible joke being played on the public. I'm sorry, not a joke, rather an abuse perpetrated on the public. Pisstole sits in his office laughing his arse off all day long thinking about the stuff he's getting away with, all the while doing Sieg Heil's to the portrait of Napolitano.

The same reason that so many cops who've hassled photographers don't understand that what is visible to the naked eye when standing in a public place is fair game for photography.

That and they're trying to avoid the embarrassment of this sort of photograph in the future:

http://pixti.me/wp-content/uploads/2...arch-humor.jpg

Is there some reason the TSA doesn't use privacy filters on their screens? It's not 100% effective but it would certainly help.

1. Because they're not too bright(the TSA that is)
2. Their monkeys would not be able to figure out how to apply them
3. TSA personnel would make cutouts with them to put on their glasses
4. They do use them, but they are so SSI that they can only be used in secure areas
5. Because they're TOO effective for such a low price.

Or this:


http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...7/184eaeed.jpg

This pic was posted some time ago here. It's not a TSA checkpoint. I believe this was in Europe.

Explains why they also continue to hire unnecessary personnel that don't add to extra security! :D

We have bills to cut Medicare and Social Security and nothing to cut the unneeded extra TSA personnel? Wow, do we have our priorities straight!

My apologies!

Here's FLL, taken by an FTer no less :p

http://www.millerworks.net/pictures/sbm_4866.jpg

Certainly makes Broward County Sheriff's Dept. look bad. :p

Point taken! But what of this (from National in 2008)?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...mpsleeping.jpg

Not gonna defend that one. He should at least have his shirt covered up, or better yet, be somewhere out of public view.

I'm not really that outraged. This must be a really boring job, I suspect this was on a break. TSA should have a decent breakroom for people, maybe that would improve things for everybody.

Depends on the airport/terminal. Some have really nice break rooms. Some others, not so much. He most likely was on break, but I still stand by my statement. And I definitely wouldn't call the job boring, repetitive maybe, but not boring. :)

Well, the fellow has my sympathies. One day 20 years ago I was tasked to do something hideously dull, I snuck off to the quietest and most out of the way place in the company, where I of course fell asleep halfway through whatever it was. One of the ever trustworthy secretaries snuck in and caught me on camera sawing Z's right in the middle of day.

I'll bet that'll be on the union's bucket list.

Flying out of BOS Terminal C (B6) about a week ago.

I noticed the screen for the x-ray machine faced a window. The TSA had apparently been concerned about security, and so had put up a big black sheet of plexiglass up against the window, so no one outside could see the screen.

The (unintended) side effect of doing that was that now the image on the screen was reflected and magnified on the plexiglass, and was clearly visible by the traveling public.

Du-oh! :rolleyes:

Are you surprised at a basic lack of physics, optics, observation, and rational thinking from a TSA employee?

I Just Searched Today's News for TSA Images
 

I got 9 images, 7 of which had TSA screens in them.

So the Holy Screens can't be all that.

The head-games the TSA plays with citizens trying to photograph their unconstitutional behavior is just part and parcel to this agency's overall pattern of obfuscation.

With every day that passes and every news story I read, I become more convinced that this rogue agency is the poster child for what is wrong with the DHS, our federal government, and our nation.

If we don't remove this cancer, Liberty is as good as dead.

I would like to apologize for making the assumption that the black sheet of plexiglass was put up because of security concerns. As has been pointed out to me via PM, it could have been put up due to glare coming from outside.

Regardless, the unintended consequence of reflecting the image to the traveling public remains.

A deputy at a court house I was going through once was more than happy to show me their x-ray screen. We have a Rapiscan machine in the lobby where I work for visitors. You can sit and watch the screen all day if you wish. It's definitely not Secret Squirrel Information.