[clue-talk] Our government is crazy (Or: the terrorists have won)

[Angelo Bertolli]

I don't know if you've looked at some of those pictures.  They're not 
exactly going to give the porn industry a lot of competition.  This 
seems to be the worst possible:  violating privacy for the sake of 
violating someone.  It doesn't seem like there's even a cheap thrill 
associated with this.  (Of course I guess they could improve the 
technology.)

And really how well is this going to protect us?  Great, so now instead 
of having a gun under my clothes, I have to have a gun in a pouch under 
my clothes.  And then the rest of you can just be scanned for no 
reason.  This seems to affect the law abiding citizens more than criminals.

Angelo


David Rudder wrote:
> Well, I don't imagine Bin Laden is sitting in his cell saying "ahah!  
> I made the Americans take naked pictures of all their airlines 
> passengers!!!  We've won!"  I really don't think this was their goal, 
> so it's hard to say they've won.
>
> On the other hand, now that these are in production, how difficult 
> would it be for a couple hardware hackers to build one of these 
> things?  Do we have to worry about millimeter wave porn hitting the 
> net?  Are there going to be cleverly hidden scanner by every high 
> school?  Now, *that's* really disturbing.  I mean, hopefully TSA does 
> *some* vetting.  But, what's to stop your average run-of-the-mill 
> pedophile from getting one of these?
>
> I won't argue that the terrorists have won, but, as a father of a 
> young girl, I'm really freaked out by the less spectacular abuses of 
> this technology.
>
> -Dave
>
> Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>> Anyone else see this?
>>
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/31/millimeter-wave-scan.html#comments
>>
>> Sorry, this is just bug nutty.
>>
>>   
>
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