Not that it will make a difference, but I feel better now. "This, and every other measure simliar to it, are a monumental waste of tax payer money. The former

Not that it will make a difference, but I feel better now. "This, and every other measure simliar to it, are a monumental waste of tax payer money. The former TSA chief Kip Hawley has stated publicly that knives and all manner of weapons should be allowed on planes because, after 9/11, it is not possible for an attacker to gain control of the aircraft. (See here for example: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/travel/tsa-carry-on-hawley http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/06/travel/tsa-carry-on-hawley) These kinds of measures have a single purpose and that purpose is to enrich the companies who develop these technologies. We do not need this to have safe air travel. A significant side effect of this corporate enriching/tax payer fleecing is a very real and unforgivable transgression on the freedom of all travelers to the USA, including citizens of the USA. In other words, the terrorists win. It has already been shown that the current body scanners can be defeated and new systems will have vulnerabilities as well. If the government is truly concerned about saving the lives of citizens, they would take whatever money is to be spent on this useless technology, likely in the billions, and spend it on road safety. Instead of self-driving cars, we have peeping-tom scanners with unknown health effects. Please stop this insanity."