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Today, that's a metal detector that intentionally randomly goes off even if you don't have any metal. Not quite "standard" in my book.
by wl 3y ago
Today, that's a metal detector that intentionally randomly goes off even if you don't have any metal. Not quite "standard" in my book.
- plagiarist 3y agoIt is security theater. We just needed millions of dollars in equipment to go in so that Chertoff was able to get his payout. The frequency of false positives and false negatives is irrelevant.
- wl 3y agoFor the downvoters because I can't edit anymore: No, this is not sarcasm about the quality of the metal detectors. The TSA intentionally configures their metal detectors to randomly trigger on people despite them not otherwise meeting the detection threshold. It's a different beep. It's a way to randomly select people for a body scan or a patdown.