The scanner has caused some controversy between people as all new additions usually do. These scanners are designed to find hard to detect explosives but producing an x-ray of the entire body of someone within seconds. The picture that comes from it is almost like a naked picture and a passenger, quoted in an AOL article, says "I feel violated knowing they can see under my clothes, I'm a very modest person". There is an option to be patted down by a TSA agent, but most people would rather be scanned then touched and felt over by some officer. A CNN article gives a counter argument for the privacy saying that, "This system uses a pair of security officers. The one working the machine never sees the image, which appears on a computer screen behind closed doors elsewhere; and the remotely located officer who sees the image never sees the passenger". Yet this article still address the issue of privacy. The idea that the technology can really do more than they say it can, and more.As I finished reading the second article I came across a comment that is something I always think about when relating to security, "It's stupid to spend money so terrorists can change plans". When we bring more security to airports then terrorists will either just work to find new ways around the system, or just find other places to attack and more creative, confusing ways at that. As we get smarter, they do too. Its a confusing concept, and very scary.
What do you think about the scanners? Do you feel violated? Is the security worth it?
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