TSA keeping you safe - going to swab your hands for explosives detection (security, carry)

[HappyTexan]

Not everyone will get there hands swabbed and it won't be at the same place you get groped.
Could be at the boarding area right before you get on the plane and it will be random.

Just another "layer of security" to keep you safe. This is already in use but will be expanded to include airports.

So it's "grope-swab-board"
Happy flying folks !

TSA: Explosives Trace Detection
Explosives Trace Detection (ETD) is technology used at security checkpoints around the country to screen carry-on baggage and passengers for traces of explosives.
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TSA is expanding its use of ETD technology in airports as part of our layered approach to aviation security and to keep passengers safe.
Passengers may experience screening of their hands using an ETD swab at airports. This additional screening measure could take place at the security checkpoint, in the checkpoint queue, or boarding areas.

*oops..should have been in the main forum, not election subforum.

[afoigrokerkok]

I have had my hands swabbed before. It was at an airport in Canada a few years ago. It wasn't that big of a deal, but it was annoying. That being said, the security people in Canada are actual professionals, unlike the TSA people.

[whoisjongalt]

They should call themselves the "Transportation SA" since they are nothing more than government-hired thugs like their German predecessors.