I suspect you may have received the old "mild" patdown and not the new "enhanced" one. I think the new one uses the front of the hand. The guy in San Diego who

I suspect you may have received the old "mild" patdown and not the new "enhanced" one. I think the new one uses the front of the hand. The guy in San Diego who refused the patdown a couple days ago now has the TSA claiming he was only going to get the old one: "Aguilar says that Tyner was facing nothing more than the traditional pat-down that TSA has used for some time, and not a more aggressive body search in effect since late October." http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/15/tsa-probe-scan-resistor/ http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/nov/15/tsa-probe-sca... If this is true then patdownees are not yet experiencing the real thing in some locations.