[IP] privacy, warrantless searches, and airport security
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 13, 2005 9:19:39 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: privacy, warrantless searches, and airport security
There was a moderately interesting article in the Wall Street Journal
today on new technologies for airport passenger screening. One phrase
caught my eye: "GE's new technology, called the Itemiser FX, which
detects explosives as well as narcotics, costs about $65,000 per machine
and is portable." Narcotics? What in the name of the Fourth Amendment
is the justification for putting narcotics sniffers in airports?
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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