Most reports suggest that Thanksgiving travel to and from some of the country’s largest airports is going relatively smoothly, despite online groups warning that they would protest the Transportation Security Administration’s new security checks. Those measures, of course, include full-body scanners and manual pat-down searches for passengers who refuse to be screened by the machines.
Right now, these scanners are only used in the nation’s largest airports, but the <a href="http://www.belgrade-news.com/news/article_962047ac-f718-11df-953e-001cc4c03286.html" title="Belgrade News’ Andy Malby reports”>Belgrade News’ Andy Malby reports that they will be coming to Montana next year. These models, however, may be less controversial. From his report:
Full-body scanners, the Transportation Security Administration’s controversial new weapons in the fight against terrorism, will be installed at some Montana airports next year, airport managers said.
But the new technology is expected to come with a twist that similar machines in use around the country don’t currently have. Rather than showing actual photos of passengers’ bodies, the images projected on screens viewed by TSA personnel will resemble “stick figures.”
Naked stick figures, I assume.