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Now airports can see through your clothes, scary huh

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080610/ts_alt_afp/ustransportaviationsecurity_080610211153

Now airports can see through your clothes, scary huh

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080610/ts_alt_afp/ustransportaviationsecurity_080610211153

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Besides masking their faces, the TSA says on its website, the images made "will not be printed stored or transmitted."

"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."
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...trust us......!

"There is no way we would ever publish these pictures on U-Tube".... [smiley=evil.gif]...!

Paul.... ...!

"How do you fancy a nice  bit of Radiation before you board our Aeroplane?"... ...!

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Won't be long until the Surgeon General will require warnings to be printed on the back of airline tickets stating " Air travel has been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and test subjects, use this ticket at your own risk."!

"The ACLU said in a statement that passengers expecting privacy underneath their clothing "should not be required to display highly personal details of their bodies such as evidence of mastectomies, colostomy appliances, penile implants, catheter tubes and the size of their breasts or genitals as a pre-requisite to boarding a plane."

I can just see the ear to ear grin on some guys face as he goes through the scanner and hears the female security officer gasp and say "OMG, look at the size of that darn thing!"

Now that's crossing the line of privacy

I've never understood why today's security X-ray devices can't be set up so the monitor only shows objects of a particular density. A raw X-ray image shows all kinds of stuff, and aside from the privacy issue, it makes it harder for the screeners to tell what they're looking at.
As it is now, those baggage imagers have software that color-codes things on the display, which helps... why not have it so only certain materials show up at all? Maybe some explosives or flammable gels and liquids read the same as human flesh...?

When you think about it, the advent of baggage X-raying also diminished passenger privacy... there are many (perfectly safe and legal) things that some passengers would have in their bags that they'd like to keep private...

Then there's the possibility that the X-ray will reveal some valuable item, and next thing you know your bag is receiving closer scrutiny... in back, where nobody can see them stealing (it happens). You can't lock your luggage now with anything but a TSA-approved lock (they are combo locks that also accept a skeleton key)... so the baggage handlers are less likely to pilfer anything, but the TSA have been known to "confiscate" items not on the "forbidden" list.