This plan is too awesome not to do.

[RaspberrySurprise]

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[sanglant]

if your body scan last more than 4 hours call 911?

[RaspberrySurprise]

if your body scan last more than 4 hours call 911?

By that point you might be a bit glowy

[RevDisk]

By that point you might be a bit glowy

I think someone in the TSA will try at some point. 

"Hey, you did not respect mah authority.  Stand there for 40 minutes while we search your bags a dozen times and lemme give you cancer."

If you think that doesn't sound plausible, you haven't flown recently.

[BReilley]

I know nobody has posted in a few days, but... tough :) I haven't been on APS for a few days.

This raises an interesting question - will we have laws regulating scanner behavior, now that "they" can "see it all"?  Anyone else remember the law, a few years back, against having an erection in public?  The phrase "visibly turgid" sticks out in my mind...

[RevDisk]

I know nobody has posted in a few days, but... tough :) I haven't been on APS for a few days.

This raises an interesting question - will we have laws regulating scanner behavior, now that "they" can "see it all"?  Anyone else remember the law, a few years back, against having an erection in public?  The phrase "visibly turgid" sticks out in my mind...

I'm very surprised this tech is allowed.  The law is very specific on strip searches, which this most certainly is.

[Hawkmoon]

I'm very surprised this tech is allowed.  The law is very specific on strip searches, which this most certainly is.

Thank the Patriot Act. After that, no invasion by the government should come as a surprise.

[Perd Hapley]

The phrase "visibly turgid" sticks out in my mind...

You have my sympathies.    

I don't recall that law. 

[RevDisk]

Thank the Patriot Act. After that, no invasion by the government should come as a surprise.

Whenever folks complain about the Health Care bill not being read (correctly so), remind them of the Patriot Act.

[BridgeRunner]

I'm very surprised this tech is allowed.  The law is very specific on strip searches, which this most certainly is.

No, it isn't.

There's some case law, but it's mostly jail cases, all pre-conviction, so less abrogation of civil rights, but the case law focuses more on the outrageous behavior of the searchers than the concept of strip search in and of itself.

The trouble is that before this lovely technology was handy, no one thought much about randomly strip-searching: Anyone who looks suspicious, anyone with a D-DD cup size, random grannies with metal hips. 

As a DD, I find this alarming.  But no, there is not much established law on virtual strip searches as a condition of partaking in a pseudo-voluntary* activity.

*See interstate travel.

[AJ Dual]

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How about just a pair of Groucho Marx sunglasses/mustache stuffed down there?  (Without needing the 'nose' obviously.)

[BReilley]

Whenever folks complain about the Health Care bill not being read (correctly so), remind them of the Patriot Act.

Two wrongs...

How about just a pair of Groucho Marx sunglasses/mustache stuffed down there?  (Without needing the 'nose' obviously.)

time to wear the toucan thong!

[HankB]

You know, people make jokes about tinfoil hats . . . but with these backscatter imaging systems, maybe it's tinfoil boxers that are going to go mainstream.

[S. Williamson]

Just don't take airlines.

General Aviation doesn't require such... measures. 

[Antibubba]

You know, people make jokes about tinfoil hats . . . but with these backscatter imaging systems, maybe it's tinfoil boxers that are going to go mainstream.

Or maybe a cucumber wrapped in foil?   

[Ned Hamford]

Or maybe a cucumber wrapped in foil?   

This thread just got cranked up to 11   

[Harold Tuttle]

i gave a lead lined film floppy disk pouch...
maybe a new chastity belt will appear

or what about wearing a shoulder holster for your PBJ?