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Invasive X-Ray security technology

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Do you want people to be able to see this when you go through the airport. I note they chose a women. BPesta, Shemp and Me could be pretty embarrassed when we go through the machine.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/26/seethru.security.ap/index.html

New airport scans could expose travelers
Screeners may get x-ray vision
Thursday, June 26, 2003 Posted: 11:14 AM EDT (1514 GMT)



Susan Hallowell, the director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, allows her body to be X-rayed by the "backscatter" machine.

It does basically make you look fat and naked, but you see all this stuff.
-- Susan Hallowell, Transportation Security Administration


EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) -- A scanner the government is testing for airport screening reveals too much more than meets the eye to be comfortable for most passengers.

Susan Hallowell, director of the Transportation Security Administration's security laboratory, sacrificed a large measure of her own modesty Wednesday to demonstrate the problem.

She stepped into a metal booth that bounced X-rays off her skin to produce a black-and-white image that revealed enough to produce a world-class blush.
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If this is implemented, no one will fly and the airlines will go out of business. It's bad enough being groped by the security (and don't you think people who get their jollies doing this apply for the screeners jobs?) w/o them seeing you also.
This machine would bring back the Great American Road Trip for sure.
 
I keep having flashes from the movie Total Recall. I have to admit, the technology is very neat. :)
 
They didn't "choose" a woman in as much is the director of the TSA who is overseeing is a woman and is testing her system on herself. Also, with this machine there is no need for anyone to be groped. It's not like they will take the feed and put it on the Jumbotron for everyone in the lobby to be seen.
 
Mauler said:
They didn't "choose" a woman in as much is the director of the TSA who is overseeing is a woman and is testing her system on herself. Also, with this machine there is no need for anyone to be groped. It's not like they will take the feed and put it on the Jumbotron for everyone in the lobby to be seen.
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Now THAT would be cool!

:D
 
From the link...

Another option would be to restrict the screener to a booth so no passing peepers can see the image, said Randal Null, the agency's chief technology officer.

Maybe they could charge people to sit in the booths...."what the butler saw...please deposit $1 for 2 minutes"
 
I would rather simply walk through a machine like the old days rather than go through all the hassle that you have to go through now. I am not ashamed of my body.
 
Susan Hallowell: "It does basically make you look fat [...]"

Right. Blame the machine.
 
This is not new technology. We built one for the Chinese years ago that would screen you in the same way as you stood at the customs counter. Don't ask me how I know or I would have to kill you.
 
Invest now in lead underwear!!!! I can hear the security jokes now. "Sir is that a gun in your pants or are you justy happy to see me."

Isnt being x-rayed a bad thing. Can they use this on pregnant women. How much is too much exposure.
 
Isnt being x-rayed a bad thing. Can they use this on pregnant women. How much is too much exposure.
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There is no evidence that short term exposure does anything negative in the long term so passing through the machine daily won't do much more than if you are out in the sun a few minutes longer.

From the article you provided : With backscatter technology, rays deflected off dense materials such as metal or plastic produce a darker image than those deflected off skin. The radiation dosage is about the same as sunshine, Hallowell said.


If you don't want to pass through the metal detectors or even this machine you could always subject yourself to a hand sweep or the ever popular groping.
 
How long before they're installing these things in helicopters & flying over towns looking into all the houses? :eek: :mad:
 
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