re TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives - CNN.com

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: February 17, 2010 6:18:45 PM EST
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> 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
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> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
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> http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/02/17/tsa.hands.swabbing/index.html
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