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remember when people first started experiencing TSA and there were massive protests at how obscene and violating it all was, then uncovering how useless they were as fake security theater

and they were going to get it all shut down

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS NOW

so good luck getting rid of flock where people don't even know it's happening

Not sure if people realize that cellphone locations, several layers in the firmware and software, can be had without warrant by anyone YEARS LATER



Wasn’t the first edition of the TSA scanner straight up showing pretty much nude photos of people? I seem to remember something like that. Now a days at least it just flags a region on a generic human model for more investigation.

The funniest part though is you pay $80 every five years and just bypass it entirely. I guess they assume terrorists are too stupid to figure out TSA precheck is available.


All my pre-check friends have to go through the nude scanner. And gave up bio-metrics. It's a two tiered security line - theirs is faster, but you need money to get into it (or fly business class+, or a flight crew, or know someone in the airport, or win the entrance-line direction lottery).


Most of the time they just send you through a standard metal detector. The state already has my prints from the dmv.


Moreover, people are pissed off when someone's angry because of TSA bs. "Don't be an asshole, they're just doing their jobs". "Oh someone's first week on this planet".


That's why it's good to use GrapheneOS*. In the future, hopefully the pinebook project succeeds


How does using GrapheneOS prevent license plate readers from tracking where you are, or from you being groped at the airport?


I responded to the last point of the parent comment


Grapheneos doesn't stop cellphone tracking either. Cell carriers keeping track of where you are (or at least which cell you're in) is fundamental to how cell phone networks work, so a privacy focused android distribution can't fix that.


Exactly, the tracking has to happen and there's no law to discard the data ever

It's how we know even YEARS later EVERYONE who went to Epstein Island

They didn't even have smartphones then, just regular cellphones

Wired just bought all the tracking from a databroker, no warrant needed

https://www.wired.com/video/watch/we-tracked-every-visitor-t...


You mean GrapheneOS?




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