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re TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives - CNN.com
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:26:16 -0500
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From: "Synthesis:Law and Technology Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com >Date: February 17, 2010 6:18:45 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives - CNN.com
Dave,Although everyone seems to be in agreement that it's a good idea, how does it stop the fundamentally simple upgrade of "one extra person involved to dress you with the explosive undies". This extra person could themselves be the bomb maker, who wouldnt even have to worry about washing his/her hands. All I see from this is a false sense of heightened security and some new ways to have false positives. Alternatively, if they remove detection of nitroglycerin to avoid annoying the cardiac patients, would it not take long for the word to get out that nitro was 'safe' to pass TSA inspection? And that's just one nitrate. Think of all the others?Dan Steinberg SYNTHESIS:Law & Technology 35, du Ravin phone: (613) 794-5356 Chelsea, Quebec J9B 1N1 On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/02/17/tsa.hands.swabbing/index.html Archives --
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