NEW AIRPORT SCANNERS SHOW YOU NAKED

Airports are doing away with the old pat down method of searching airline passengers and are resorting a new technological advance that allows airport security to see through your clothes. No more reach around with my pat down. Bummer. The new scanners will be installed in all major cities starting with Washington, Los Angeles, and New York. The booths close around the passenger and emit 'millimetre waves' that go through cloth to identify metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives, according to the Transport Safety Authority. The image is so detailed security screeners sitting in another room will be able to ogle passengers’ clearly visible sexual organs. So if you hear some giggling when you’re in the booth, you know you don’t measure up. “People have no idea how graphic the images are,” Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said. The TSA says that to protect a passengers privacy that their face will be blurred during the scan. Hey, they still see you going  in and going out. They know who I am. Now they know I’m 40 pounds overweight, sagging in several places and am not a candidate for athlete of the year. A TSA spokesman said, “Once the transportation security officer has viewed the image and resolved anomalies, the image is erased from the screen permanently. The officer is unable to print, export, store or transmit the image.” Well, at least my scan might not show up on some kinky porn site or worse yet a comedy site. Watch some hacker will get in there, copy the scans while they happen and then upload them to a site called “weird airport scans.” Suppossedly for the time being, airports will allow passengers to choose between the traditional pat downs and the scan. I wonder if they give out health certificates with their scans. You can bet these guys are going to be talking in the breakroom about these scans. “Hey did you see that 350 pounder that came through here, we almost couldn’t fit them in the booth.” Or, “Did you check out that hot blonde, you could see where those were faked.” I don’t know. I’m thinking, I might want to consider other modes of transportation on my trips. I’m thinking cruise ship. I know if I do fly, I’m opting for the pat down. I like the touchy feely stuff. Cheap thrills, you know.