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Naked doesn't bother me, it's the radiation from x-ray based scanners.

nostrademons 14y ago
I thought I'd heard that the radiation dose was on the order of what you'd get from 2 minutes of your airline flight. [1] I was far more worried about the nude photos, and always opted out before the backscatter machines were replaced with millimeter-wave. "Being groped is uncomfortable for 5 minutes; having nude photos floating around some TSA agent's computer is uncomfortable for a lifetime." [1] http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures/SecuritySystems/ucm227201.htm#2 http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...
- X-Istence 14y ago
  Until there is independent 3rd-party verification that indeed the radiation dose is that what I get from flying for 2 minutes, I won't trust the TSA telling me so, or the company that is making billions of the machines. Skin cancer, as well as various other cancers run in my family, I don't want to risk it. Although, coming back from Europe to the US nothing says "Welcome to flying back to the US" than a grope from some security guy at Amsterdam airport that is paid to be there because the US initiated new rules requiring all flights to the US to have RapiScan machines for full-body imaging, or the grope at the first arriving airport with my connecting flight back to the city I live in.
- DennisP 14y ago
  2 minutes assuming the machine is properly calibrated and doesn't malfunction.
- flyinRyan 14y ago
  Your source is the same government who's trying to get you to go through these things. The issue is, I don't know, you don't know and the TSA guy sure as hell doesn't know. Those scanners are one of the few places in the world where you can get an xray scan by someone who isn't a certified xray machine operator.
- jsymolon 14y ago
  Doesn't matter, things go wrong. http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.html http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.ht...

I thought I'd heard that the radiation dose was on the order of what you'd get from 2 minutes of your airline flight. [1] I was far more worried about the nude photos, and always opted out before the backscatter machines were replaced with millimeter-wave. "Being groped is uncomfortable for 5 minutes; having nude photos floating around some TSA agent's computer is uncomfortable for a lifetime." [1] http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures/SecuritySystems/ucm227201.htm#2 http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...

X-Istence 14y ago
Until there is independent 3rd-party verification that indeed the radiation dose is that what I get from flying for 2 minutes, I won't trust the TSA telling me so, or the company that is making billions of the machines. Skin cancer, as well as various other cancers run in my family, I don't want to risk it. Although, coming back from Europe to the US nothing says "Welcome to flying back to the US" than a grope from some security guy at Amsterdam airport that is paid to be there because the US initiated new rules requiring all flights to the US to have RapiScan machines for full-body imaging, or the grope at the first arriving airport with my connecting flight back to the city I live in.
DennisP 14y ago
2 minutes assuming the machine is properly calibrated and doesn't malfunction.
flyinRyan 14y ago
Your source is the same government who's trying to get you to go through these things. The issue is, I don't know, you don't know and the TSA guy sure as hell doesn't know. Those scanners are one of the few places in the world where you can get an xray scan by someone who isn't a certified xray machine operator.
jsymolon 14y ago
Doesn't matter, things go wrong. http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.html http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.ht...