TSA has been taking a lot of heat lately for their "security" practices.  The latest story comes from Mythbuster's own Adam Savage. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po.....-12-razor-blades.ars  "What the f*ck TSA?  You look at my junk but you somehow miss ... two twelve inch steel razor blades?"
This comes on top of stories of intentionally increasing the humiliation of pat downs for those who refuse to use the scanner (which, btw, has always been positioned as optional) http://tech.slashdot.org/story.....ncourage-Scanner-Use, and man handling three year olds http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=77140.  If you've got the time, you can review a whole recap of recent TSA security stories here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html?nc=96  Be warned, there's lots!

Nice.  Yesterday was National Opt-Out day for the nudie scanners at airports.  Whether or not that was a success is irrelevant.  TSA tags anyone opting out as a "Domestic Extremist", ie, a terrorist.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headli.....-extremists_11242010

Airport body scanners and terrorists are equally likely to kill you.  Great!

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a US physics professor has added to the debate by claiming that the scanners are redundant because you are just as likely to contract cancer from the radiation as you are to die in a terrorist bomb on your flight.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci.....cientist-claims.html

You should read this article: http://oudaily.com/news/2010/dec/06/column-nude-awakening-tsa-and-privacy/

and keep it in mind whenever you see crap like this:http://rickmercer.com/Rick-s-Rant/Blog/November-2010/The-Morally-Outraged-Travelling-Public.aspx

I like how he quoted Benjamin Franklin... it is so apt.  Unfortunately, this will not end.  The increased security will continue to be heightened because now there's an industry around terrorist security and they have a vested interest to continue things as they are.

Proving TSA will not relax now that Bin Laden is dead, they've increased their vigilance to include patting down infants!  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/10/national/main20061649.shtml#ixzz1M8r7coSS
Cuz ya never know what special surprise is hiding in that diaper...

Does this look like a terrorist?  http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/index.html?hpt=hp_p1&iref=NS1

Moving up from infants, TSA demands a 95-year old remove her adult diaper in case there might be a weapon in there.

A 95-year old's diaper!  WTF?

"Momma's takin' this here aeroplane to Memphis!  Don't try an' stop me or I'll hit ya with somethin' I keeps in my granny panties!'

Are the TSA employees getting cancer from the untested but "safe" x-ray scanners they operate all day in between groping strangers?  The ones at Logan International Airport think so.  http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/06/27/2012226/Cancer-Cluster-Possibly-Found-Among-TSA-Workers