You know, if I never wanted to fly again (and also spend a big chunk of my remaining years in prison) I'd wear an undergarment, doped with an RF reflective material that spelt out: 'Piss off, you nosy little sod' or something similar.
Or perhaps, in the case of a female traveller - 'Hey! I've shown you my tits, now you show me yours'...
There are darker ways to use this - secretly spray/stencil 'TSA SUCKS' on someone's clothing using RF-absorbent paint - but only if they've *really* upset you...
Main problem, to steal a phrase, is that it's just security theatre. far more immediate issues at airports are the next-to-nonexistent vetting of people and things that go airside: ground staff, cleaning staff, the vast numbers of deliveries of inflight catering, many of whom are on minimum wage - as are the security staff.
A recent undercover program at several UK airports (and informal comment is that US ones are no different) showed pretty lax standards and crap implementation of such standards as there were.
General rule seems to be to irritate the customer with grandiose high-visibility madcap schemes, but adopt an out of sight, out of mind view of the 'back office'.
I took a train several times last month - bought a ticket on line, boarded, took my reserved seat, got off in London and walked straight to my destination - the whole experience being just as I remember flying was like 30-odd years ago...
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Date: 2008-07-30 09:46 am (UTC)Or perhaps, in the case of a female traveller - 'Hey! I've shown you my tits, now you show me yours'...
There are darker ways to use this - secretly spray/stencil 'TSA SUCKS' on someone's clothing using RF-absorbent paint - but only if they've *really* upset you...
Main problem, to steal a phrase, is that it's just security theatre. far more immediate issues at airports are the next-to-nonexistent vetting of people and things that go airside: ground staff, cleaning staff, the vast numbers of deliveries of inflight catering, many of whom are on minimum wage - as are the security staff.
A recent undercover program at several UK airports (and informal comment is that US ones are no different) showed pretty lax standards and crap implementation of such standards as there were.
General rule seems to be to irritate the customer with grandiose high-visibility madcap schemes, but adopt an out of sight, out of mind view of the 'back office'.
I took a train several times last month - bought a ticket on line, boarded, took my reserved seat, got off in London and walked straight to my destination - the whole experience being just as I remember flying was like 30-odd years ago...