8th grade Amendment debates

Closing statement:

TSA body scanners are an inefficient and inaccurate security measure that is a huge violation of the 4th amendment rights of people everywhere, the TSA has no evidence of any domestic passengers that are planning to ‘blow up’ an airplane however they still carry out these invasive body scanners. With the huge amounts of money that is being used, the TSA body scanners should be more efficient and accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6OOxmvfx4k

terrorists such as the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber were able to get on the plane when the whole purpose of the TSA body scanners are to prevent terrorists from ever entering the plane. Why must we sacrifice our rights, our 4th amendment rights, when terrorists still get on the plane?

The TSA body scanners started to be widely used in airports after the underwear bombing that happened in 2009 and you are proving my point when you stated that the shoe bomber was "On the plane, he then lit a fuse to his shoe bomb". The shoe bomber managed to GET ON THE PLANE meaning that all the security measured, INCLUDING THE TSA SCANNERS, had failed to spot the bomb. So how come the shoe bomber was able to get on the plane if the TSA body scanners were so convenient?

Although backscatters were removed from US airports by June 1, 2013, according to the Transportation Security Administration, and replaced with less invasive body scanners but are still used in US prisons and courthouses, as well as airports in Africa. The security hype occurred after the underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who was in fact a Nigerian man who boarded from Africa so how is it that they use a TSA scanner with so many loopholes and false alarms there?

http://rt.com/usa/182208-tsa-body-scanners-faulty/

The doctors with the knowledge may be forced into going through the body scanners and the radiation from the X-ray body scanners, as stated before, may be below the recommended radiation levels however is a risk to all regular travelers in the long run.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40218074/ns/technology andscience-security/t/leaked-us-marshal-body-scan-images-revealed/#.VWgPumAUtmA

As I have stated before in another argument a 7News article states that a teenager with a diabetic insulin was forced to go through the body scanner even though she opted for a pat down, even after that she had to go through the pat down. Her insulin pump was found broken after going through the body scanner. This again proves that even though you can opt for a pat down the inexperienced TSA employees may force you into having a body scan. If you have any further argument relating to this topic please post it but them again I have several other arguments to rebuke them so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdnn51Srrs

The TSA scans are programmed so that a person's body is outlined in a light colour with a dark background. Metals are detected to be a dark colour meaning that if you place anything to the side of you body the metal wouldn't be detected and you can pass through.

Jonathan Corbett was able to sneak past a heavy metal container past the TSA body scanners by creating a secret side pocket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEoc_1ZkfA

However anyone with a familiarity with how the technology works could easily conceal weapons by hiding them in specific places on the body or covering them with other material to fool the machines into not being able to distinguish the contraband from the passenger’s body.

researchers discovered that by taping a pistol to the outside of a passenger’s leg just above the knee or sewing it into the same spot inside of a pants legs, the gun doesn’t show up at all

They were even able to conceal an a .380 ACP pistol by taping it just above a subjects knee and the same gun was also conceled by sewing it into his pant leg. Another strategy, which worked well with knives, is to tape the weapon to the passenger’s body and then cover it with a material that will read as the same color as a human body, such as a polytetrafluoroethylene like Teflon. Researchers also found that it was possible to use a slight variation on this strategy to smuggle plastic explosives. "Our results suggest that while the ... [machine] is effective against naïve attackers, it is not able to guarantee either efficacy or privacy when subject to attack by an attacker who is knowledgeable about its inner workings,”.

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tsa-rapiscan-body-scanner-study/

As stated before any one with the basic knowledge of the TSA body scanners can easily hack into the software as the software on the scanner they purchased lacked any password protection or software verification, and the lock to the cabinet where the computer is housed could be picked in ‟under ten seconds with a commercially available tool,” meaning an attacker could potentially infect a scanner with malware without much difficulty. someone who was both sophisticated and prepared could have use techniques like these to sneak virtually whatever they wanted onto airplanes for years.

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tsa-rapiscan-body-scanner-study/

I have already disputed this argument - right below your opening statement

There are new body scanners that don't produce a graphic image of a human body however in a John Hopkins Studies report it clearly states that they were also able to modify the scanner's operating software so it presented an "all-clear" message to the operator even when contraband was detected

http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/08/20/airport-scanner-security-vulnerability

Having the basic knowledge of the new body scanners, if a person is found "all clear" then an image will not be produced and a simple ok will be projected on the screen. What is to ensure the safety of the passengers if terrorists are able to hack the software of a TSA body scanner?