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May 10For once, technology ≠ the answer.
James Fallows notes an interview with Rafi Sela, the “former chief security officer of the Israel Airport Authority and a 30-year veteran in airport security and defence technology, [who] helped design the security at Ben Gurion [International Airport],” who considers full-body scanners expensive, ineffective, and unnecessary (not to mention invasive).
Although I’m normally an unabashed fan of electronic gimcrackery, spending that kind of scrilla on devices that have been proven not to work is pretty hard to understand–until you remember that some contractor stands to make millions and millions of dollars showing off your naked body.
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