Solution options? Profiling (properly done) may be better than potentially/actually dangerous tech.

[karisu_sama]

...And it's NOT any simplistic "pulling over people travelling while black or brown", which is stupid and which has been said to have already happened in the USA prior to these machines, as conducted by the usual non-highly-trained security grunts. (I've been on at least one flight where everyone of apparent Indian or Pakistani origin was asked to

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[hyuga]

This is what Bill Maher has been saying for a while. Profiling doesn't mean pulling aside anyone in a hijab, or with a funny accent. It can be done smartly, and can be better than random.

I get angry when I'm going through airport security and some old lady with children gets randomly pulled aside for an "enhanced" screening, while a shady looking guy like me just gets to go right through. I don't think I exactly fit a terrorist profile, but I certainly do more than grandma with the grandkids.