Right to privacy?

[azurelunatic]

Hm.

If the average US citizen has no right to privacy anymore, expecially if they're suspected of being a terrorist, enemy combatant, or whatever the new hip label for "someone we're going to prosecute regardless of pre-existing law" is today -- hell, why take the disadvantages without the advantages?

Airport security can effectively see you naked, if they care to. Why let them get all the fun? Nudity for the people! The "I don't give a fuck who knows" school of privacy! As webloggers, we're the pioneers!

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[wibbble]

I can just see the early warning signs going off now.

Be on your guard!

Search every cavity!

There's a high threat level!

They're sneaking in on planes!

Everyone's worried about a... TOURIST ATTACK!

I'm assuming that tourism isn't a major industry in the US, since people don't want to go there anymore.

[azurelunatic]

Internal tourism is gigantic.

[wibbble]

That doesn't bring money into the country, though.

[azurelunatic]

Nope. But the average US citizen does not notice that in the rush for safety.




...my ass. Safety my rather large pale ass.

[azurelunatic]

...in fact, in Alaska, one of the Alaskan sayings is: "Why do they call it 'tourist season' if we can't hunt them?"

[wibbble]

I've heard that from Californians too. ;o)

[alphafenris.livejournal.com]

Airport security can effectively see you naked, if they care to. Why let them get all the fun? Nudity for the people!

Thank you. I've now got a quite funny/scary mental image of airport screeners outputting the scanner to a bigscreen TV pointed at the line of people waiting to be screened. Government reasoning?

"Instead of paying some guy to squint at this little screen to protect a flight he isn't on . . . we thought it would be easier to let the passengers handle it. They're highly trained to react to people saying 'Is that an assault rifle, or are you happy to see me?' while waiting in line. Plus, we now get fewer complaints about the wait to check-in."

[azurelunatic]

Hmm, if you combined that with the flocking behaviour thing I read about...

...Basically, there was a large audience hall, and audience members were given paddles with red on one side, green on the other. After some minimal training in how to work with the sensing device aimed on them, and some practice in pattern-forming, with feedback, they were put at the controls of a flight simulator. Not only did they do well with it, but they managed to successfully roll the plane.

I wonder if you could implement something like that for baggage screening.

[mojo-iv.livejournal.com]

You should've seen airport security in Australia when I was there a few months ago -- it was like a blast from the past. I didn't even have to take off my shoes.

--m4

[azurelunatic]

Woohoo!