Folks on gizmodo are reporting that the backscatter machines are shut down in many airports:
http://gizmodo.com/comment/33032822
Did the TSA just blink in the face of Opt-Out Day?
Blogger Bob over on Propaganda Village (FT&T's term for the TSA blog, at
http://blog.tsa.gov/) claims that National Opt-Out day was an utter failure, that opt-outs were very few and far between (even moreso than normal) and that indications are that the American public at large thinks that the whole issue is overblown, at best. He makes no mention of the documented fact that many airports with nude-o-scopes had them out-of-service for the day, that those which used them at all did so FAR less often than they had last week,, that screeners were under orders to be in their VERY BEST BEHAVIOR for a change, that the frisks were FAR less bad-mannered and intrusive and rough than they were last week, and that some of Blogger Bob's claims for opt-out numbers are UTTER FABRICATIONS, according to people who were actually at some of the airports he listed as having next-to-no opt-outs (he claimed no opt-outs at Denver, for example, and someone who was one of 5 opt-outs to go through at or around the same time called him on it in the comments). He attempts to make opting-out to be about opting out of the FRISK, rather than the nude-o-scope. He ignores that all the people not chosen for nude-o-scope CAN'T opt-out. He ignores that air-travel levels are *WAY* down from last year - multiple flyers commented on FT&T about being able to change their tickets to pretty much wherever they wanted to, when they could not last year.
Real reports from the field seem to indicate that TSA did indeed blink. And is now attempting to deny that they did.