Somewhere George Orwell is smiling and thinking ‘I warned you’… I’ve always considered Mr. Orwell’s novel 1984 a bit far fetched, but this report from Computerworld makes me wonder if, perhaps, Mr Orwell wasn’t clairvoyant: Documents obtained Tuesday by the Electronic Privacy Information Center suggest that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has signed contracts for […]
Body Scanners
The Body Scanner Scam
Edward Luttwak, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, has a must read op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal… In short Mr. Luttwak lays way waste to the fallacy of body scanners in airport security screening: All males have a body cavity. Females have two body cavities. In prisons, these body […]