Cairns airport staff are so nice. I carry a lot of shit in my carry on and you’ve got no hope of identifying it all on X-ray. At Sydney and Melbourne they insist on removing a thing at a time from the bag then putting the balance through again and again on the hope there’ll be few enough chargers or electronics that they can then ID everything to their satisfaction. The woman in security here just took my camera out to of my bag, with my consent, wearing soft gloves, and then went through my bag explaining why. Quick, efficient, polite, and if there was any connection between security theatre and safety, she’s ticked that box. Five stars.
If the objective is to identify everything in the bag, look in the fucking bag. The idea that it’s less invasive to do it via X-Ray and to insist on doing as much X-Ray as possible is fucking brain worms. Imaging technology changes nothing. Backscatter X-Ray can still see my dick.
Some alcoholic airline regulator boss has decided the difference between privacy invasion and not is whether you go through the passenger’s belongings using a scanner or not. It’s bullshit. It’s like big tech saying the difference between ads being ok or not is whether they’ve gathered enough of your private info to make it likely you care about the advertised product.
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