Airport Security :: NudeScan-o-Rama

[Delta9 UK]

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/...tomstrip_x.htm

Last time I tape a lump of hash to my ballz!!

Delta9 UK Reviewed by Delta9 UK on 12-05-2006. Airport Security :: NudeScan-o-Rama http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-15-airport-xray-bottomstrip_x.htm Last time I tape a lump of hash to my ballz!! Rating: 5

[smok3y]

Damm... Thats invading your privacy big time..

[TheGreenFog]

Just thought I'd post copy/paste since it's not that long. Go to link for the pic.

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Air travelers stripped bare with X-ray machine
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY


The agency in charge of the nation's air security expects later this year to begin using a controversial X-ray machine that will show airport screeners a clear picture of what's under passengers' clothes â?? whether weapons or just bare skin.

The new system makes it easy to see possibly dangerous devices.

Rapiscan Systems
Screeners plan to test the "backscatter" machines at several U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says. The refrigerator-sized machines are considered a breakthrough in scanning technology but have been labeled "a virtual strip search" by the American Civil Liberties Union. (Related story: Airports test 'futureworld' devices)

Security workers using the machines can see through clothes and peer at whatever may be hidden in undergarments, shirts or pants. The images also paint a revealing picture of a person's nude body.

The devices can potentially be used to screen hundreds of millions of air travelers each year, although TSA says more study is needed to determine how the devices may be used at U.S. airports. The agency declined to say when and where it expects to test the machines.

Backscatter technology has been waiting on the sidelines for nearly four years but seems poised now to move to the forefront of aviation security. The machines are already used by U.S. Customs agents at 12 airports to screen passengers suspected of carrying drugs. They're also getting a test run at a terminal in London Heathrow Airport, the first major airport to use them.

The ACLU says the scanners invade personal privacy. "This leads directly to a surveillance society," says Barry Steinhardt, who runs the group's technology program.

But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate subcommittee last month that he wants to employ the technology and doesn't want an "endless debate" over privacy issues.

Security consultant Douglas Laird says the machines are essential to spot explosives, which aren't detected by metal detectors.

The $100,000 machines bounce low-radiation X-rays off a person's skin to produce photo-like computer images of metal, plastic and organic materials hidden under clothes, says American Science and Engineering. The TSA is testing its BodySearch machine.

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Damn, now they're gonna see my schlong...

I am all for security...but c'mon, man...my schlong...!

I wonder if you will start seeing security guards snickering as you go through, now. Either snickering or gasping!

I guess you won't be allowed to cover your privates as you go through, huh?

Booo for stripsearches...even virtual ones...boo.

:rastasmoke:

TGF

[NextLineIsMine]

When they turn the machines into goggles then theyll have a market

[smok3y]

^^^ lol ^^^

Xray goggels would be cool..

[Skink]

No Sir your fine,It's your wife we need to check...

[smoke it]

ya, but when they catch Achmed with a wooden zip gun befre he hijacks your flight, youll shut up

[savagepossum]

so this is basicly for airport security to have a bit of fun

[MastaChronic]

im getting the hell out of this country ASAP
whos with meh?!

[Delta9 UK]

ya, but when they catch Achmed with a wooden zip gun befre he hijacks your flight, youll shut up

Unless he puts it up his Ass