[westbywest]

I do agree there is plenty of counter-productive hype against the scanners, as I am certain not each and every TSA employees will maintain their own personal stash of images of scanned passengers (as such hype would have us believe).

Still, the effort and money going into operating these scanners, along with TSA's not especially subtle opinion that the scanners should be made legally compulsory (whether the law support them or not), prompts me ask whether this circus would just motivate would-be terrorists to find alternate attack vectors.

As of yet, I've not read any news suggesting that anything meaningful is being done to improve security on air cargo, or even to better guard against bombing attacks at the airport security checkpoints themselves. Indeed, the scanners and the controversy they're stirring seem to make the latter an even greater risk.