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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they changed that pretty quick. It hasn't been like that for years now.

I don't fly often, but I did a few months ago, and every airport didn't have a single scanner machine running, it was all metal detectors. I don't know if the machines broke and the money to keep them running dried up, or they just stopped caring, or what.

[–] TheRealKuni 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Every time I’ve flown in the past few years they’re still using the scanning machines. I have PreCheck so I get to skip them and go through the metal detector, but the machines were still there scanning away.

[–] Aethr 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Read the article. The machines didn't go away, but their images are much more generic now

[–] TheRealKuni 4 points 6 months ago

I’m well aware. Read what the person I replied to wrote, about how they don’t even use these scanners and use metal detectors instead. That is not my experience.