I have a buddy that’s a cop at a perfect size airport to get away with some workplace shenanigans
I wanted to see if I could have the TSA try their hardest to detect a chip… but apparently fun is literally against their policy etc
Buddy was down but TSA assumed I was trying to learn how to smuggle plutonium or something 
He definitely tried the other day
And like a true friend, next time I talked to him I asked him how he screwed that up
I was recently annoyed by seeing some examples of accredited sources indicating that “peaked” and “piqued” are functionally identical in “contemporary English”.
He didn’t… looks like he screwed it in! HA. HA. HA. 
oh and PS, I’ve flown with bags full of injector syringes both in carry-on and checked baggage… nobody has even asked. They assume medical and let it pass. Same goes for implants… when they ask you “do you have any implants” you just say “yeah, in my hand” and that’s it… they assume medical like titanium pins or whatever… they never get into details.
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Thanks for all the information, it’s put my mind at ease and I also learned something new 
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@amal that’s a very good point about them assuming it may be a medical implant like a pin etc I didn’t even think about it like that, thanks.
I fly with 26 rfids and 3 magnets implanted - nothing happend.
Just for fun the try to locate the magnet and the rfids with the handscanner - nothing.
I was also in the full body scanner.
Only one time, i was flying with the syringe - they asked me and they found it very cool
I have a Spark2 and a NExT and have never had a problem. But now you have me thinking about the titan… its a magnet and metal detectors detect magnetic metals… sooooo 
@ODaily @amal @invalid_signal any input on that?
Oh wow that’s a lot of implants,I’m sure I’ll be fine with my one,I’ve only just realised that I’ve never had problems with my dermals so not sure why I was on edge about my xsiid
I’ve got six in my hands. xG3, Mifare 1k, high freq indicator, low freq indicator, Vivokey, and NeXT.
I’ve gone through security with not a single issue ever. It honestly doesn’t come up even if they have to wand me. For airport security it’s an absolutely negligeable amount of material far smaller than the minimum for it to be flagged by the machines as something to check.
@Steven1727 i never had problems with my magnets at the airport.
I saw also my picture on tje fullbody scanner - no magnets or chips.
@JennyMcLane very interesting! I can totally understand the body scanner not seeing the chips or the magnets, but the metal detector not reading the magnets… 
! Super cool, but me being me… I wonder how that works 
It’s a threshold thing for mass and surface area I’m pretty sure. Same as why it doesn’t go off on piercings.
Well piercings are non magnetic, typically titanium or 300 series SS, same as plates and screws used in the body. I have 2 plates titanium with 10 screws in my ankle, and a pair of titanium Oakleys and they wont set it off either. Maybe its because its incapsulated in titanium?
Metal detectors at the airport only go skin deep. Same with the full body scanners.
When going through the big scanner thingies I generally look back at the screen when exiting them and my hands are noticeably red-er than the rest but then the security persons seems to completely ignore it. I guess they just see normal hands and that’s enough to know there’s not a gun hiding there.
Actually they can detect ferrous metals anywhere in the body. The ability to detect small objects depends on the sensitivity settings on the scanner… which is usually not that high because it’s looking for big things like guns.
Yep this is because millimeter wave radar used in these machines does actually penetrate deep enough to bounce off the implants just under the dermis, but it’s right at the edge of the wavelength and the signal deteriorates considerably going through the skin twice… so the machine can tell something is there but the indicator on screen is on your hands, and the people running the machine clearly can see your hands when you put them up over your head and you’re not holding a weapon, so meh… they assume medical implant and let you pass.
I’ve had the scanner actually put red boxes on my hands before and they did stop me and ask me if I had any medical implants… I just said yes and they let me walk.
I spent most of the winter travelling across Colombia, Ecuador and Peru via Miami and Vegas, originating on the West coast U.S. I flew about every other week for six months and I had zero problems with the implants anywhere, no one even asked about them or ever seemed to notice. I have a blue xsiid in L2, an xdf2 in R0, and a NeXT in R2.
