I flew out of Portland International yesterday, and was really unhappy to see that the porno scanners have been installed, at least at the ABC checkpoint. A couple of things.
- Like I posted before, the technology these machines use has not been proven to be safe for commercial use.
- There are only 3 scanners for the busiest security checkpoint for the airport (the ABC gates clear passengers for nearly 65% of all PDX departures, with the top 3 airlines – Southwest, Alaska, and Horizon accounting for more than 50% themselves).
This is crap. The machines aren’t safe, for the traveling public, nor for the TSA agents that are forced to stand next to them for hours at a time.
I think I’ll print out a few dozen copies of the Mashable article and leave them around the airport. That, and obstruct their use at every chance.