New airport scanners see underneath clothing (1 Viewer)

[JonnoisBored]

New airport scanners see underneath clothing

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/06/11/Scanners_that_see_through_clothing_installed_in_US_airports

Security scanners which can see through passengers' clothing and see their body underneath are being installed at 10 US airports.

A random selection of travellers getting ready to board airplanes in Washington, New York's Kennedy, Los Angeles and other key hubs will be shut in the glass booths while a three-dimensional image is made of their body beneath their clothes.

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has said the scanners do allow security screeners to see details of a passenger’s body and sexual organs, but their faces will be blurred.

The booths used emit millimetre waves which identify explosives, chemical materials, metal, ceramics and plastics through clothes.

The TSA website states that the images taken will not be stored or printed.

"Once the transportation security officer has viewed the image and resolved anomalies, the image is erased from the screen permanently. The officer is unable to print, export, store or transmit the image."

kinky...

 

[Iron]

I can shee your vinkee!
hehehe

 

[MaNiElla]

 

[Omium]

Im so becomming a security guard at the airport.

 

[me121]

this is really interesting. (i mean the technology rather than what it is being used for.)

i wonder how long the scans will take and what kind of data they can produce..

 

[Serius]

Its funny how in the last decade or so, whenever new technolodgy or laws are brought out we are told that they wont be abused, then years later we find out the oposite.

Oh well, i am not a hot chick so i wont be getting held up and scanned, sometimes i love being a white male.[If i was a security guard i would also be taking pictures of the screen with my phone]

 

[chicky_pie]

I really want us humans to invent a scanner than can see through into the middle of this planet, then we would know what's beneath this dirt.

 

[Tulipa]

I very much dislike this.

I'd prefer the patdown I think. I'll be at LAX in a week though so it'll be interesting to see if/how they're working then.

 

[bazookajoe]

God this is so fucking stupid, as if airports weren't bad enough already

 

[chicky_pie]

I very much dislike this.

I'd prefer the patdown I think. I'll be at LAX in a week though so it'll be interesting to see if/how they're working then.

Prepare to suffer with customs in the U.S.

 

[Iron]

this is really interesting. (i mean the technology rather than what it is being used for.)

i wonder how long the scans will take and what kind of data they can produce..

http://www.oddee.com/_media/imgs/articles/a93_weapons.jpg

 

[Slidey]

New airport scanners see underneath clothing

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/06/11/Scanners_that_see_through_clothing_installed_in_US_airports


kinky...

If you're worried that a low-level clerk working at the airport is going to get their jollies off by savouring the moment you walk past the scanner so they can observe the grescale blurr that forms, you need to take a good, hard look at yourself.

 

[Iron]

lol so naive Slidey!
There's also risk of the images ending up on websites.

It would probably be cheaper to make passangers check their clothes in with their luggage, but youd still have the dull drudgery of the cavity search.

 

[juggernaut]

The officers dont even see your face. So in a way, it actually is far less intrusive than a pat down. What would you rather, a 10 second effortless walk through, or a 30 second face to face pat down? All while security becomes impenetrable, which means i wont be on a plane that gets held up by some crazy pen knife wielding arab.

I can only see huge benefits in this...

 

[Slidey]

lol so naive Slidey!
There's also risk of the images ending up on websites.

You are being facetious, right? Do you know how this technology works?

 

[me121]

You are being facetious, right? Do you know how this technology works?

how exactly does it work?

 

[Azamakumar]

how exactly does it work?

...........................

 

[sca]

Hmm, we were discussing this in legal studies the other day. Apparrently they aren't "randomly" selecting the old or the ugly for the scans, either.

Unfortunately I'm in the prime demographic to be "selected" too - young, female, and not unnattractive. In some ways I'd rather have a female officer pat me down, or even strip search me. At least that wouldn't involve an image of my body being recorded in some system somewhere for all eternity.

 

[juggernaut]

They dont record it. It isnt stored, reused in any way what so ever. Its just shown in real time to the guards eyes and thats the end of it.

Unless ofcourse the guard whips out his mobile and starts vid recording then thats another story...

 

[Omium]

Hmm, we were discussing this in legal studies the other day. Apparrently they aren't "randomly" selecting the old or the ugly for the scans, either.

Wtf

Unfortunately I'm in the prime demographic to be "selected" too - and not unnattractive.

You wish

In some ways I'd rather have a female officer pat me down, or even strip search me.

Of course you would......

At least that wouldn't involve an image of my body being recorded in some system somewhere for all eternity.

Did you read the article?