All those long hours tolling away in airports dealing with grumpy passengers and pants that are always two sizes too small are about to pay off for TSA agents. The TSA is rolling out new security scanners to 10 U.S. airports that use millimeter waves to see through clothing and detect things like metals, plastics and ceramics. Of course the TSA agent “looking at the images in a separate room” (that’s not creepy) has to actually be looking for those things and not just staring at boobs.
Besides masking their faces, the TSA says on its website, the images made “will not be printed stored or transmitted”.
Oh yeah that puts all my privacy concerns to bed. It doesn’t help that in the first 15 seconds of the below CNN video you see an obviously large overweight dude staring at a continually rotating naked x-ray chick on his computer monitor. The bastard has some kind of headset on so I can definitely see this conversation happening.
TSA 1: Oh dude, I found our next “random” passenger.
TSA 2: Niiiiice, her boobs are outstanding.
TSA 1: You lucky bastard. I should be on monitor duty.
TSA 2: No worries I will just minimize this window and open a new one so you can check it out on your break.
