Because they're smart enough to know that terrorists might build a bomb
into a camera. but not smart enough to realize that they would try to keep
it looking like a camera as much as possible.
It's probably a liability issue. If you don't check...
I am amazed that if I wear a pager or cell phone, they stop and make me turn
it on. However, if I put them in my computer case and pass it through the
xray machine, they don't ask to see that they are operable. As if circuitry
for a bomb and plastic explosive would look that much different than any
other circuitry to the eyes of low-pay security guards watching the same B&W
monitors for hours on end. Or as if you couldn't build a bomb into a device
and still have the device appear to operate in a normal fashion.
Once I carried my digital camera through the gate and they asked me to turn
it on. The batteries were dead. So they let me board the plane with it
anyway, and I'm glad they did. But by the previous logic, that camera was a
prime suspect.
Tom C.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:21 AM
Subject: OT: Camera inspections at airport security
> Why do the airport security guards insist on peering through the
viewfinder
> of a non-SLR camera? What do they think they're gonna see?
>
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