Who’s Getting Rich From the Full-Body Scanner Boom?
Image via Wikipedia By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones Online The TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies. Will the “digital strip search” device just bring more of the same? Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among politicians at all levels in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound […]
The United States does not have a security system; it has a system for bothering people
TSA “theatre” flying in turbulent skies American airline passengers are coping with increased security and added airline hassles by flying less. In fact: • Scheduled US passenger traffic on airlines dropped 5.5 percent last year, and 3.1 percent worldwide, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization. • That decline was the largest on record. It’s […]