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TSA responds to blogger who rendered $1B of nude body scanners useless
- ImprovedSilence 15y agoI'd hardly call that a response... What's that quote about if your job depends on not understanding something, there's no way in a million years you are going to understand it?
- leephillips 15y agoIt is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23510.Upton_Sinclair http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/23510.Upton_Sinclair
- jack-r-abbit 15y agoMaking the title in HN different than the actual article title is misleading. One could argue that it is link baiting. I've watch that dudes video. If the article's real title had been presented on HN, I would not have clicked it since I didn't need to see it again. I don't think the TSA's "response" in the article is even a response and certainly not worthy of a headline... I imagine if it was headline worthy, BGR would have used THAT in their title. Shame.
- jimktrains2 15y agoThey didn't respond to anything and it was a single sentence of fluff.
- Lazare 15y agoYeah, that's not a TSA response; just a canned one liner from a PR droid. The only real content there is the video which has already been discussed to death here on HN[1]. 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3673462 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3673462
- awongh 15y agoWhile speaking with Digital Trends, a TSA spokeswoman called the video “a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.” She continued, “TSA conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them out the field. Imaging technology has caught many items large and small, and is one of the most effective tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as the greatest threat to aviation, explosives." ...so, they respond by saying nothing of substance.