[vkou]

> We'd be better off just forcing everyone to do the hand swabs. One airport I went through had some kind of machine that purportedly could detect trace explosives coming off your clothing or skin. Those would be way better, if they work.

I've gone through that machine six times, in one trip.

Something in my backpack set it off, so they kept running swabs over and over again until the light went green.

It was an utter waste of time for everyone involved. The fools patted me down five times, looked through all my things, ran them through the x-ray machines, and can clearly see that all I have is the clothes on my back, a laptop, and two changes of clothes. But they won't let me through the security line until their magical explosive scanning oracle shows a green light.

As if anything about the risk I pose to a flight fundamentally changed between the first swab and search, and the sixth.

The best part is they were asking me what is causing it to go off. Why are you asking me? I don't know a god-damned thing about your magical black box.