• Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    Yeah I’ve seen those. I think… I know I’ve seen what looks like that. But if the technology inside is updated I can’t say I know. Never had a problem with my balls being too warm in them. And I can’t recall ever having my shoes on inside. Always had to put them aside. But that could easily just be airport policy at the time.

    Anyhow… what irked me was the post acting like scanning shoes was some fake phony security scam. Almost every single airline and airport policy is there for a reason.

    E.g. after the Lockerby tragedy. Airlines had to make sure that every single bag has a passenger that is on board the plane. As someone had checked in a bag with explosives, and then never boarded himself.

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      That’s what changed here, is you can wear the shoes into these machines now basically. Because they know the machines are already scanning for w.e, and it is coming up on their screens that they are reviewing, so the only question for them was does an organic foot in the shoe cause any interference, which I presume it did not.

      That and if you applied for TSA pre check… you could skip taking your shoes off. And that started in 2013. So if you could pass a basic background check before you got to the airport, they allowed you to bypass it. Which made people wonder … well why is anyone doing it

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        I don’t know exactly how TSA works, I have not flown that much within the US. But I agree that’s pretty bullshit.