The TSA Ritual
Take a flight in the U.S. You shuffle through a checkpoint, strip your shoes, spread your arms in a scanner, surrender your water bottle, let strangers paw through your bag.
Notice the choreography. It’s not just about finding weapons. It’s about teaching compliance. Stand here. Raise your arms. Wait for permission. Thank the officer.
The ritual isn’t about safety. It’s about obedience. Surveillance as liturgy.
Always refuse the facial scan. Don't let them collect you biometrics.
lol.
Refuse facial scan and body scan. If everybody were to do so, they couldn’t keep these systems in place.
And then they refuse you access to your baggage and plane.
And you do not receive your passport back.
it is over the moment you give them your passport anyway
your passport contains copies of your fingerprint + facial info already, and they can read that off via NFC.
(it has an authentication mechanism though)
Where do they get your fingerprint? I don’t remember being printed…
It depends on the country, but many countries now require fingerprints for getting a passport
Dear God!
If you felt like that wasn't enough, the latest ePassport specifications support iris scans.
(They can also be turned into a Bitcoin HWW if you try hard enough)
It is disgusting. They didn’t even ask for our passports upon reentering the US, until we tried to enter the baggage carousel. They will not let you pass through the glass doors/gate until you remove your sunglasses and hat, for their handy facial recog entrapment.
Usually they just match it against your passport photo. And that probably has been shoved in enough databases, so it’s over by then.
All those countries that you have on arrival visas are because of the personal detailed information shared between the countries. Everything that is filled in a visa request form.
I’ve always wondered if my iris scan would just reveal a QR code to my lightning address. sparepicolo55@walletofsatoshi.com , turns out I’m more machine than artist some days.
True. Your option is to stay home, smuggle yourself onto a private plane, and/or STFU.
And yet the only place I want to go is not survivable by automobile because of distance and a key stretch of mountainous terrain teeming with rebels and insurgents. One thing I think about with the Plan B passports is how ineffective it’s going to be if air travel is restricted severely when it becomes obvious you need to painstakingly leave your extended family and go.
You can still opt out of photos and the body scan 🤙
fly private...its not as expensive as you think, especially if you have a large family - a short range small jet might be $10k per flight hour (won't be crossing oceans) for longer flights $15-20k per hr, no TSA, (but you still have customs of course)
The only time I fly is when I am at the controls.
