A lot of the airports (not only big ones) have a small bottle check machines. It's easier for them to not use it, but if you ask politely or have some medical reasons - they'll do it. I've seen those in Prague, Bratislava and Moscow.

I’m surprised the TSA agents at pre-clearance in Shannon actually bothered doing any xraying, last time I flew to the US out of Dublin the TSA agents at pre-clearance were just waving everyone through without checking anything other than boarding pass

@@patrickmartin3322 Well, going through airport security twice is a bit of a ridiculous thing to require. I get waved through in Dublin most of the time too. There is absolutely zero reason the TSA can't just trust the DAA to do their job. Having to show up 3 hours early because you have to go through 2 security lines is just a ball ache

We have them in Amsterdam for a few years now. Always feels like a letdown when flying back home and you forgot to take your laptop out of your bag on an older airport

TSA took my can of ravioli

Lmao🤣

Next episode: The logistics of the legal and prison system.

Amy deserves a raise!

You forgot the brick ;)

@@theinternetbutler "Say that you're managing a prison. We'll call it Half As Prison. -"

Or even mug-shaped mugs

It's an avocado I swear!

Definitely theater. Rules changed but not the equipment at my airport.

The theatre is becoming effective and ceasing to be theatrical.

Hehe, my favourite was when Disney opened their Star Wars land and retail bottles of coke that were oddly shaped were all of a sudden a massive security problem. Keep everyone distracted

Maybe they just let it pass cuz they wanted their pilots packed but can't legally say it

I was part of the first batch of TSA screeners in my home town, and I can say your story tracks. While there were plenty of intelligent people who worked for the TSA (I'd like to think I was one of them), there were a large amount of people who were hired because they were struggling to find work for a variety of reasons, many of which were personality and ethics related. Things often got missed. We would have trainings where security failures from other airports were shared with us... some of those failures included fully loaded firearms being missed on the x-ray... which is something that most people could have seen without any training at all. Complicating the issue, the terrorists behind 9/11 used items which the FAA allowed on flights. After 9/11, the government stepped in and fired all of the private contractors, many of which had years of qualified experience, and hired largely a brand new screening force. While some private screeners migrated over to the TSA, many screeners opted not to since it would have resulted in a cut in pay. A more rational, less expensive and far more effective approach would have been to simply tighten the security already in place, and implement new trainings with existing staff. The irony here is that while your father traveled with 50 rounds of ammunition, there were plenty of old ladies who had fingernail scissors thrown away. Finally, I always thought it was funny that we even had to screen the pilots to the degree we had... if a pilot had bad intentions, they hardly needed a knife or a gun to follow through.

@@jaybravo2199 my father passed away a few years ago, but I heard him yelling from beyond when I read your last paragraph - nothing agravated him more than getting screened "like the rest of the cattle" he'd say, lol. Of course, if he reasoned with the agent, "I'm the pilot, I don't need a weapon to crash the plane" he would have been tackled and handcuffed.

@@vacuousbard6410 With ammo but no gun? What was he gonna do, throw the rounds at the terrorists?

@@asystole_it’s actually quite possible to do serous damage by stabing the firing pin

"since 9/11" - I remember the Before-Time. In the 90s I did a lot of practical work, and carried a pocket-knife [Victorinox] on my key-chain and habitually hung it out of my pocket and my keys in to reduce the bulk in my pocket, and coz it was easier to grab [also had a quick-release]. I got to the scanner [1999] and put various things on the belt, and the man said, "And the Knife." Yep, Scan that, Make sure it's a Knife, for my plane-trip. [Of interest, I just checked my local rules, and a S.A.K. is still OK to "carry" in public for it's normal practical purpose - But Anything Large or Locking; No Fucking Way - And they do metal-detecting these days at Public-Transit, and the Night-Club district]

As a 90s kid, this how I constantly feel like. Then I realize its been a little longer than I like to think.

CBP asked a dude to do that, and he overdosed

Such a nice human scale solution

@@ernestoglez6725 nothing of value was lost

Simple, but very effective. What a novelty in this day and age.

I always wondered why they didn't just do this. They made me throw out a red bull once. So I chugged as much as I could stand before hopping on a plane. Probably one of my worst ideas ever, btw. 😂

It's security theater to make people feel safer

I've gone through security so many times and get false positives randomly on different items even though I had all the same items each time.

​@@epicemmalee2000it's a government jobs program masquerading as a security program

@@epicemmalee2000 why? Does it not add the risk of contrarians and drama queens?

@@uristmcary Yes and it makes people more complacent since the area is supposed to be secure and safe. Regular people aren't looking for threats nor are they willing to neutralize them. You should not have to forgo privacy and bodily autonomy in order to travel. As Benjamin Franklin warned, we have traded essential liberty for temporary safety and now deserve neither.

Yes, CT scanners will fog ALL film, regardless of speed (ISO)! Hand check it always.

Is it though bacause i had my film camera with me and they wouldn`t let me skip the scanning for it and i thought ok all my photos will be ruined but they turned out just fine, no quality loss or anything.

Ive heard they screw with the digital CMOS sensors used in modern mirrorless cameras as well.

Film? Are you still living in 2008?

​@@T1Oracle some people like using film

Something along the lines of the 6 P's: Prior Planning Prevents *iss-Poor Performance. Oh, then there is A Failure to Plan, is a Plan to Fail.

That must have been a really bad day for a lot of people.

"Entropy always wins." That simple fact made ma a lot of money as an Electrician. Basically, we channel and direct entropy to where the work needs to be done.

TSA is a joke!

Almost as if it's all about control and not safety

The real security is never seen. The display we endure is for show (and why they spend so much money on it is curious) but behind the scenes - from checked bags to passenger manifests to airport contractor crewing - there is security work done.

The public is not told about all of the terrorists caught as they don't want to cause panic. Attacks are thwarted on a daily basis. The fact that we can be so ignorant about it shows that it's working.

And why have they never caught a terrorist since we've had hightened security in place? Are you saying terrorists are getting through security and then suddenly deciding not to do anything once on the plane? Think beyond 2 dimensions.

Watched a guy try to pass his old tool bag full of tools through….. whined that he came to fix his parents house and was going to home to AZ. Told to send as baggage. They escorted him to the baggage counter. That’s the last I saw of him. TSA wins everytime.

My mom used to fly a lot for work. One time she accidentally dropped her phone in the toilet and put it in a bag of rice to soak out the water. Security had a field day with it xD

​@@Dirtyharry70585Tbf a hammer or something is a more plausible weapon than a lot of things they ban

I once sent through my backpack, it had my clarinet in it and a bunch of charging cables. Turns out on the monitor, that looks like a bunch of cylinders wrapped in wire -- exactly like a cartoon bundle of TNT...

I got stopped on two separate occasions for a Wacom tablet stylus they insisted resembled a detonator.

Nothing is ever the same in airport screening, even when there are guidelines listing the requirements for a given screening entity. Checkpoint A can have different requirements to Checkpoint B. Even though both checkpoints are 100 meters apart in the same terminal operated by the same company.

My experience has been that water is allowed into the airport checked in area, where its usually a mall like environment. Its banned at the checkpoint leading to the actual gates.

In the US security procedures are uniform, but their enforcement may not be. Abroad things are very different. If you are a novice flyer in the US, you’re going to be in the regular security line. This currently means laptops out, shoes off, and going through a full body scanner. In Precheck you keep shoes on and laptops in and go through a metal detector. In both lanes liquids must be in

​@@osculant 🐑

My last flight crews verbally forbid charging of vapes during the flight and I would love to hear the contingency plan they have for a thermal runaway device in the cabin.

​@@godlugner5327 Fire extinguishers, and diverted landing

While watching this, I'm already working on getting around it... and I have zero intent or desire. Just a fun thing to think about. The fact is, perfect security doesn't exist.

@@godlugner5327 They have a fire-safe box.

We will be the annoying old people in airports in the future, trying to take out half our bag in the security line out of habit lol

@@phyllojoe5346 That's every American at non US airports.

Even in dubai its the same I didn't take anything out and I'm so happy my laptop was nice and cozy lol

Me: Taking my laptop out of my bag TSA Agent: “Leave your laptop in your bag.” Me: Bluesceens… “I leave it in?” TSA Agent: “Don’t take it out. Leave it in the bag.” Me: “Okay…”

they are def getting way better at their stuff and honestly the more they blend into the background, the more i get the feeling it's not just security theater anymore and that they're actually caring. (they got railed _hard_ by congress for pure security theater crap shortly before these changes started getting in the pipeline, so i would not be surprised if that helped kickstart this change.)

I used to fly Manchester UK > Dulles > Manchester UK regularly. @ Dulles, walking towards the line you could tell whether it was laptop out / belt off by how busy they were. Terrorists hate queues too apparently.

Sign: “Take electronics out of your bag.” Me: “Taking laptop out of my bag.” TSA Agent: “Leave electronics in your bag.” Me: Eh???

​@@mensaswede4028then they get annoyed when you ask on the return flight, like "can't you read"

Schiphol has different machines than the ones shown here though :)

@@Atom15 different brand, same idea

Yeah but sometimes they tell you to remove your shoes In Schiphol so It's equally frustrating to me

@@AggelosFelekis Only for high top shoes (over the anke)

@@EmeraldRod Nope wrong. Where you got that piece of nonsense I've no idea

that's been the case since I was a child - though the percentage of people who know what photographic film is, is falling off sharply.

​@@kenbrown2808Some key points here - film is seeing a modern day comeback to the point that new film camera manufacturers are starting production and Kodak is reintroducing discontinued film stock, and most film is resistant enough to x-rays that you could get away with the standard 2D machines, at least the relatively modern ones, while the CT scanners use much higher doses to work.

@@bosstowndynamics5488 and yet, my whole adult life, I have known to have film hand checked at airport security.

You should use the film the astronauts used on the "Moon" in 1969. It takes sharp color pictures unaffected by radiation.

skill issue

I typically thank them for the massage. Should I be tipping?

I mean, did you instead choose not to go thru the scanner yourself? That’s literally the ONLY reason they ever do that…if you CHOOSE it.

@@macgeek2004 Nah, I went through the scanner. Everyone I saw that got felt up went through. They'll grope you if they feel like it, even when you do what they ask.

Awh man you still need to take off your shoes? European airport here, we don't have to (unless hitop boots) and didn't have to take out electronics for many years!!

Goon security theatre, more like it. *gag*

The TSA agents know that these machines will end their tyranny! They'll make sure these machines won't work...

My airport currently has multiple x-rays not in use because something has happened to them. Then, the ones that are working go down constantly because they are used so much. I would rather use the old 2D AT smiths than the analogics. Just because of the fact they worked... literally a hat falling out of a bin will fault the analogic but not the smiths.

@@jjbboxbulbasaur6183 US government spent $700 million on garbage machines, apart from sending foreign countries billions in cash. I’m just so very tired of America and its incompetent corruption. I wouldn’t even mind if it was competent corruption, but alas, we have brain dead president with a cabinet full of diversity hires and cronies. Gasoline in my area just went up .60¢ to $4.90. It’s supposed to go up to $6 by summer…..

They're worse when you have f**ktard DOs that don't do their job, this is for non ASL lanes.

Cannot agree enough with this comment. The Analogically scanners SUCK.

Low Z elements have k-edges way too low to detect. A 7 keV photon will be attenuated by a few micrometers of iron/a few mm of water. Mammography operate at 30 kVp, medical CT at 120, and industrial CT:s at several hundred (since they need to image dense metals).

Maybe in a synchrotron... but the luggage would have to be frozen... but then you might as well check fluorescence

Elements… but can they detect the difference between my MDMA and prescribed adderall?

Def need that on a tshirt!!!

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After raising up to 60k trading with her, I bought a new house and car here in the US and also paid for my son’s (Oscar) surgery. Glory to God.shalom.

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Fellow photographer I see! I have to ask them to hand check my film, and I get… looks lol

... a pasta machine??

Thorium glass 👀

@@SupraSav yeah, google 'pasta maker' :) it's a dense m0ther..er :)

@@SupraSav wedding gift 🙂

lol hahhaha

makes you wonder what else is fake...

Yeees! Haha I’m curious if they made the xray image next to it in blender or was it just onscreen for b-roll

they make 3d objects as a side gig

That whole image is a blender reconstruction of a Smiths Detection HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX Cabin Baggage Screening machine. Look at the baggage in the next frame and the background with the shipping crates which have Real Engineering logos on them.

You mean, to do what was normal in 1970?

@@codetech5598 it was like that up until 2001.

Yep. And eith hand luggage, it is even faster. Honestly, i wiuld never do it, but i think id be fine arriving 15 minutes before.

​@@DtWolfwoodthere must've so many people who couldn't make it to their flight when they first implemented it

I still show up over an hour early, you never know what kind of events can drastically increase tsa times. For example, I live in Texas and had to travel for work a day after the eclipse. My flight was leaving at 6am so I show up a little before 5am thinking it would be a ghost town that early. I of course forgot everyone traveled to Texas for the eclipse. The tsa line was 45 minutes long and growing longer by the minute. I barely made it to my flight. Always show up really early, you never know what might hold you up.

social engineering is powerful. i've heard of people breaching even big corporate security and entering controlled-access areas just bc they look like a contractor and are carrying a metal clipboard. even the highest security stuff, like military base security, can fall victim to social engineering.

@@dead-claudia The largest weakpoint in any cyber security setting is almost always the people.

Sometime after 911, maybe 2005 or 2006, they did catch some guys that had been planning to use liquid explosives on planes..... I was like 19 or so then, but I think that was about the same time they put the restrictions on liquids.

@@Blinkerd00d I believe hidden in footwear, so they started asking people to remove shoes at that time to be passed in the scanner.

@@JoseLopez-hp5oo Yeah it was around that same time the they caught that guy with them in his shoes... But I think the liquid stuff was a cell that they caught before they could implement. I may be mis-remembering thing tho.

It has to appear secure,not be secure.

fitting profile pic lol

Your profile pic is relevant here haha

​@@robob4465Yep. And what's more unfortunate is that appearing secure doesn't imply actual security.

"What are these large bags of powder in their suitcase? Oh well. At least it's not a pocketknife or a bottle of water!"

Deterrance can't be measured

yeah the tsa agents need trained to not shove film (esp used film) through those scanners.

I'm, ship your film to/from your destination? This isn't rocket science. I'm a weirdo in different ways, but you can't expect normie-optimised systems to care about you 🤷‍♀️

@@halfsourlizard9319 Fuck the normies. OP shouldn't have to spend their own money to ship their luggage separately.

@@halfsourlizard9319 yes, that is true, until they lose your memories/work, I've shipped film once, thankfully it was just unexposed, so all I lost was money, but ya, they lost my package the risk is too high to ship exposed rolls. I'm not saying remove all the new CT scanners, they are as the video shows, brilliant for people who aren't bringing film, but I just hope they keep at least one "sensitive materials" line!

or how to rob a captive market blind, because if these moronic laws weren't in place...

That's weird, there are definitely competing products like Rapiscan 920 CT

American airports use Analogic instead even though they're less reliable and they don't change any policies except maybe laptops when there's a CT

me to i miss walking to the gate with family most people born after 2001 will never understand all this police state bs is normal to theam but its not normal.

I miss when cockpit doors were unlocked. ;-)

@@fractal4284 If we, as humans, didn't behave like absolute idiots, we wouldn't need this. I can help but feel sad as I watch this

@@fractal4284 I was going to say the exact thing you just did. Good old times.

@@user-my3yp1wb2z The crap known as religion is the root cause of all of this.

Ik it's almost as if they didn't want to touch your genitals 🤔

I had the exact same situation !

Why would he have 'forgotten' to say then, when it isn't true?

@@alexanderSydneyOz There is a lot of Smith's Detection press material in the video, and some emphasis on how these machines save time ("allowing to spend more money"), which sounds great for any airport manager. I don't believe it's sponsored however, but they probably had an agreement for sharing the press kit and letting him talk with an engineer.

lol.... yeah, because someone watching this runs an airport, and is in the market to buy a bunch of Smith machines coz they saw this video :D :D :D: :D lmfao

@@remiheneault8208 The camera angles seem to have been chosen to feature the brand name.

​@@CrusinVK right lol what are the odds of that? Plus there's no reason to leave out the sponsorship if it existed. People's minds are still swayed whether you disclose or not anyway, and the backlash if it was discovered isn't worth it

Pull your pants down and spread your butt cheeks for a search, then act all innocent and confused. Next time they won't be such jerks.

Yeah, it's nice when they change the rules, sometimes day by day, and expect you to know

Same just recently lmao

LA is one

I had a "fun" experience with this recently. Started taking my laptop out, got told to leave it in, then they still pulled my tray aside after it went through to put everything I had in there back through the machine one-by-one...

i always bring an empty reusable water bottle and fill it up at a water fountain in the terminal

@@LOISWI This. You don't have to buy overpriced bottled water. Even in Africa, there's always drinkable water in the airport facilities.

@@nosy-cat I kind of hesitant to use the public drinkable water fountain/faucets.

@@sperera5916 understandable, a lot of people are. Neither me nor my wife ever had a problem though, we fly quite a lot and we've always filled our bottles from airport bathroom faucets. I don't think there's need to worry. The only issue is that some airport bathrooms only have warm water faucets, so you'll need to wait before your water cools down :)

I just watched that video too. I have a masters degree in medical image processing, so the immediate first thing I thought of when I saw both these videos was "dude, thats spectral ct" lol Funny how both these videos came out so close to one another

Cause the "emmiter" and "reader" of his machine is stationary and is the object that moves, and it changes the focus. with each object. The airport ones have an easyer job, because the position and focus of the object is alwways the same (the tray). And the emiter and reader revolves arround it. Les variables, easyer job, thus faster.

​@@javipaniagua2942It also doesn't need sub millimeter accuracy to get the shape and density of pretty much everything in a bag. TSA isn't inspecting solder joints on your VR headsets, but they'll see your dildos and clothes just fine

@@javipaniagua2942 Cargo scanning.

It's also doing much less detail to begin with. The one LTT have is for verifying an individual M1 screw is properly in place, or that SMD solder joints are good, while this one just wants to know roughly what an object is. LTT's is probably just as fast for the same level of detail

DFW is way behind in the scanner game too.

​@@haydenf1353 I hate DFW so much.

truee

Literally this.

Google: TSA Stopped A Record 6,737 Guns From Getting On Planes In 2023-93% Of Them Loaded.

@@pdubsweir3 Right. Haven't seen many in flight weapon or explosive incidents. Just the usual loony passengers disrupting flights

to be perfectly fair to them (even though they don't deserve it), you only hear about the terrorist attacks they failed to stop. journalists don't write a whole article every time someone is quietly arrested in a security room somewhere -- survivorship bias.

⁠@@durdleduc8520 if the TSA managed to stop a terrorist attack we wouldn’t stop hearing about it for weeks.

What evidence is there that the airport monetisies security theatre? My understanding is that it's a net loss for them

These are way slower compared to the old ones when you have precheck. The bottleneck now is not getting cleared by the TSA agents but the backlog of people waiting for bags to go through

What utter nonsense.

Not sure any Americans who travel frequently even have any faith in the TSA. It's well known they spectacularly fail in their singular duty time and time again, to say nothing of how people in other countries avoid the farce entirely without detriment to their safety.

I'd love to know who actually finds it reassuring. I'm sure that there are normie idiots who do ... but nobody I interact with.

what is your problem, Flying is made more secure and easier and you have to stink about it.

@@Meihish I think my problem starts with the millions, if not billions of dollars that are wasted for a problem that literally does not exist. Flying is not easier, not even close. I’m not even sure how you could rationalize that response.

See what you doing there is stupid. You go oh no planes are blowing up so no needs fir security ignoring the fact that no planes are being blown up because of security. You see the flaw in logic? Also if people want to enter a country illegally they will regardless how hard you try not that you shouldn’t try but it doesn’t affect your life unless you want to go pick oranges and get payed below minimum wage. It does make for good campaign speeches so racist idiots can go “damn right bloody immigrants” but other than that.

@@mkultra599well tried Ben Laden your cover has been made buddy

Its quite simple: CT scanners have historically been very expensive to buy and maintain, maintenance heavy and consume huge amounts of electricity. Old ones used liquid nitrogen to cool the magnets to temperature and high end ones are still water-cooled.

CT has been used for pallets of checked baggage for a long time now. And, no. CT doesn’t have magnets or cryogens. That MRI. LOL Carry on luggage is checked with backscatter X-ray. It’s not simply looking through your items, but is looking at how your items fluoresce.

​@@LAG09Maybe there's some technical minutiae I'm unaware of but as far as I'm aware CT scanners don't use any magnets of the sort that require substantial cooling, at least not LN2. Personally I would have said that, expense aside, the main reasons CT scanners weren't being used until more recently would be speed, size, and resolution, in particular discrimination of similar density items and classification/modelling of lower density items

Cost, and as noted in the video it takes time to get them fit for purpose.

mostly speed, the ct in hospital takes way longer than this maschine does

Yes, Dublin airport got these new scanners.