{"id":3400,"date":"2012-03-08T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:32:03","slug":"anti-tsa-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2012\/03\/08\/anti-tsa-video-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-TSA video goes viral!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelunderground.org\/index.php?forums\/aviation-passenger-security-in-the-usa.8\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Naked scanner\" src=\"http:\/\/iwilloptout.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/EPIC_Body_Scanner_Image_Nov_24_Final-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/06\/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners\/\">Jonathan Corbett&#8217;s video<\/a> has over 800,000 views in the last couple  days, despite YouTube censoring it for a while (possibly because the\u00c2\u00a0 title has &#8220;nude&#8221; in it). \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelunderground.org\/index.php?threads\/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-%E2%80%94-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-noss.2365\/\">Travel Underground thread<\/a> is the epicenter.\u00c2\u00a0 The rough chronology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/06\/1b-of-nude-body-scanners-made-worthless-by-blog-how-anyone-can-get-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners\/\">the original post<\/a> had a great headline<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tsanewsblog.com\/1901\/news\/passenger-slips-metal-by-tsa-scanners-repeatedly\/\">Lisa Simeone on <em>TSA News<\/em><\/a> was the first to blog about it<\/li>\n<li>It got hot first on Twitter: 2000 hits in the first 2 1\/2 hours after he posted it.<\/li>\n<li>A couple hours later it <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=3673462\">hit #1 on Hacker News<\/a>, getting 10 hits\/second.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Slashdot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/politics\/comments\/qkr4m\/1b_of_nude_body_scanners_made_worthless_by_blog\/\">Reddit<\/a>, Mashable, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2111417\/TSA-nude-body-scanners-Jonathan-Corbett-video-exposes-loophole.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> &#8230; after which Drudge and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/blog\/2012\/mar\/07\/blogger-film-evading-tsa-nude-airport-scanners?newsfeed=true\">the Guardian<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/posts\/?keyword=body+scanners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNET<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2012\/03\/man-claims-you-can-beat-tsa-scanners-by-placing-contraband-along-the-side-of-your-body.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Consumerist<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>TSA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=3678744\">less-than-compelling<\/a> response threw gasonline on the flames and sparked coverage from <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5891258\/is-it-really-this-easy-to-fool-a-tsa-body-scanner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GizModo<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2012\/03\/bodyscanner-video\/\">Wired<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/socialmedia\/2012\/03\/08\/tsa-successfully-fails-to-address-major-airport-security-issues-exposed-in-viral-youtube-video\/\">The Next Web<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/tsa-responds-to-backscatter-houdini-for\">Reason<\/a>, and once again <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=3678744\">Hacker News<\/a> &#8230; plus lots more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120308\/03020318032\/slow-down-tsa-lynch-mob-that-naked-scanner-expose-video-is-exaggerated-old-news.shtml\">Mike Masnick at TechDirt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/boardingarea.com\/blogs\/flyingwithfish\/2012\/03\/08\/why-you-cant-smuggle-anything-through-tsa-scanners\/\">Steven Frischling on Flying With Fish<\/a> point out that there&#8217;s nothing new here: security experts have been talking about the scanners&#8217; high error rate and vulnerabilities to exploitation for years.\u00c2\u00a0 But video footage makes  it very compelling.\u00c2\u00a0 And the spread through the tech community highlights that the same kind of grassroots coalitions that mobilized against SOPA are possible on  other civil liberties issues &#8212; like the TSA, for example, and the PATRIOT Act and FISA next time they come up for renewal.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of other learning too, so it&#8217;ll be interesting to watch things unfold.  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