Terrifying reality of what airport security could actually see through an X-ray machine - eviltoast
  • catloaf@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Yeah they changed that pretty quick. It hasn’t been like that for years now.

    I don’t fly often, but I did a few months ago, and every airport didn’t have a single scanner machine running, it was all metal detectors. I don’t know if the machines broke and the money to keep them running dried up, or they just stopped caring, or what.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Every time I’ve flown in the past few years they’re still using the scanning machines. I have PreCheck so I get to skip them and go through the metal detector, but the machines were still there scanning away.

      • Æther@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Read the article. The machines didn’t go away, but their images are much more generic now

        • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          I’m well aware. Read what the person I replied to wrote, about how they don’t even use these scanners and use metal detectors instead. That is not my experience.