The CBC is reporting that the U.S.’s vaunted new security apparatus that takes a naked body scan of airport travellers failed to detect an undercover TSA agent who carried a gun through it several times. Which just goes to show that you can spend $7 billion a year on counter-terrorism but the system breaks down at the minimum wage positions.

Here’s my favourite part of the article:

None of the TSA security personnel who failed to spot the handgun in the body scans was disciplined, according to the source cited by NBC.

And a few choice quote from the CBC comments:

The use of airplanes to make terrorist attacks dropped off the map the day the cockpits were locked up. All that has ensued is hysterical, fear-mongering from our “representative” governments.

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In any situation where you have poorly-trained people performing boring, repetitive actions, where the chance of a “hit” or unexpected outcome are extremely low, you will find that the effectiveness and efficiency drop to near zero.

It’s pretty scandalous to find out these quarter-million-dollar machines are still fallible after the “grope-a-thon” of 2010.