[pp.int.general] privacy at customs on airports

[Stephane Bakhos]

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, bakel362 at planet.nl wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:07:24 +0100
> From: bakel362 at planet.nl
> Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] privacy at customs on airports
> 
>
>> I'm living in the Netherlands. The whole situation is just another excuse to
>> get those nude scanners there. That attacker was a double spion that's the
>> reason there wasn't checked if he had anything with him. He was a agent and
>> had some critical information about the Al-Qaida, but that was because he
>> was a Al-Qaida fighter! It's just another excuse to.....
>
> 1. Please explain. Was this gentleman working both for CIA and Al-Qaeda? Sounds exciting!

Actually he mixed things up with a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

> 2. As you know, the newest scanners analyze images by means of a compter
>    program - so that no humans see my penis. I get the impression this
>    is all a giant sales effort of the firms that sell scanners. They are
>    in paradise now! And nobody pays attention to the real cause: just as
>    in the case of 9/11, there were an abundance of indications, but they
>    got lost due to poor/non-existent coordination between agencies.

Most jurisdiction will probably have to impose a minimum age limit for the 
scanners, else it could break child-porn laws. It is the case in Canada, 
and might also be in the UK.

According to:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/pakistan.taliban.children/index.html

""Almost 90 percent of suicide bombers, if you look at their profile, are 
12 to 18 years old," Hussein says."