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Common Sense and Security: Body Scanners, Accountability, and $2.4 Billion Worth of Security Theater

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http://www.linuxbsdos.com – The Transportation Security Administration is feeling public heat these days over its combination of whole-body-image scanners and heavy-handed pat-down searches, and deservedly so. There’s no question that reform is needed to curtail TSA’s excesses. We especially applaud the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s efforts to increase public awareness about the body scanners. But will the heat [...] (General)

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