There's 20 million dollars wasted. This would never work as a stand-alone security method, and we already have to jump through enough hoops to get to the illusion of security on the other side.

That being said, I want to poke Joe Stanley of the ACLU in the eye with a red hot nuclear missile. Quoting the article:

"Nobody has the right to look at my intimate bodily functions, my breathing, my perspiration rate, my heart rate, from afar," said Joe Stanley of the ACLU.
Stanley says government officials need to focus on what has worked in the past.
"They need to use old-fashioned, shoe-leather law enforcement investigative techniques, chase down known evidence, known suspects and get out there and do a good, competent basic job in investigating terrorist groups," he said.




Since when is a heart rate an "intimate" bodily function? I could see if they were trying to strap a meter on your peter or something, but a freaking heart rate? I wonder if Joe feels uncomfortable when he goes to the doctor when they strap on the BP machine. "Oh, my god, I can't believe I'm being viloated like this..."


Personally, I'm more than willing to walk through a full body x-ray machine if it means I don't have to take of my shoes and anything with more density than lemon meringue pie, then hold my pants up as I reach for my ID to show the fourteenth person who's asked for it. I can't see how a trained professional looking at a faint outline of my flesh while looking for weapons is an unacceptable violation of my privacy. Do people seriously think that the folks behind the screen would be giggling and pointing out the faint ghost of a penis to each other? And even if so, who cares? Grow up, people.



And as for sticking to "old fashioned, shoe-leather" law enforcement techniques, isn't that exactly what has failed to work reliably in the past? I don't think anyone is advocating a complete abandonment of the traditional techniques, but we're idiots if we don't pursue ways to supplement them with modern techniques, too.