It appears that many of the so-called ‘porno scanners’ are recording up to ten times the radiation emissions that they are advertised as providing.
Meanwhile the Department of Homeland Security claims that it can unilaterally implement a policy of strip searching all air travelers without any prior public comment or getting approval from any higher authority.
Under the guise of fighting terror, we have created an out-of-control monster in the DHS. All these abuses can be traced back to the odious USA PATRIOT Act that was rammed through after 9/11.
Authoritarians are quick to exploit any scare to further infringe on our rights and liberties under the guise of keeping us safe.
What a poor scanner article…it infers that the maintenance documentation showed the machines are giving off 10 times the radiation because the technicians failed to divide 10 measurements by 10 in order to get an average.
That is a much different thing then the machine actually emitting 10 times the radiation that it was designed to.
In other words, the machines work fine, the technicians’ errors made it seem like they were faulty.