Airport Body Scanners (NSFW?)

[wiretap]

The full body scanners that President Obama last night authorized to be rolled out in airports across the country at a cost of over $1 billion dollars not only produce detailed pictures of your genitals, but once inverted some of those images also display your naked body in full living color. It is important to stress that this is a low resolution image. Airport screeners will have access to huge high definition images that, once inverted, will allow them to see every detail of your body.

 

[spidey07]

You sure about that? The newer ones only display an outline that looks nothing like that detailed picture.

 

[StageLeft]

You forgot the poll. And yes, I'd hit it.

 

[StageLeft]

You sure about that? The newer ones only display an outline that looks nothing like that detailed picture.

So they are deliberately crappifying them; what will they find that a metal detector can't I wonder if they're actively limiting detail.

Are there people people in a conference room gauging at what point a naked person becomes nude or not?

 

[Hacp]

Where do I sign up to be a TSA agent? Hopefully there's a hot people line and a fat people line so I can avoid the latter.

 

[OutHouse]

that pic you posted looks bs to me

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/files/2008/05/tsa-release-images-2-050808-726403.jpg

 

[yllus]

I believe the crotch area and face are automatically blurred by the software. The image will also be viewed by people in a room where they cannot peek out or around the corner and view the face of the person being scanned.

I really don't have much of an issue with this technology.

 

[Hacp]

I believe the crotch area and face are automatically blurred by the software. The image will also be viewed by people in a room where they cannot peek out or around the corner and view the face of the person being scanned.

I really don't have much of an issue with this technology.

So theoretially, a female can hide a weapon in her genitals and get on board without detection?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Nice, she shaves

 

[GTaudiophile]

So theoretially, a female can hide a weapon in her genitals and get on board without detection?

Or a man can hide something up his ass...

Remember the scene in "Man on Fire?"

 

[OutHouse]

I believe the crotch area and face are automatically blurred by the software. The image will also be viewed by people in a room where they cannot peek out or around the corner and view the face of the person being scanned.

I really don't have much of an issue with this technology.

umm no the software does not blur out the groin.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Wait, if her belt shows up, then wouldn't her bra clasps, etc. show up as well???

 

[yllus]

So theoretially, a female can hide a weapon in her genitals and get on board without detection?

I actually wonder that as well!

umm no the software does not blur out the groin.

Source?

Wired's Danger Room has more information:

The agency says there’s no privacy problem. “Facial features” (and, presumably, other body parts) “are blurred when our officers see the images,” the TSA insists. Nor will the agency “keep, store or transmit images. Once deleted, they are gone forever…. For additional privacy, the officer viewing the image is in a separate room and will never see the passenger, and the officer attending to the passenger will never see the image.”

“These images are friendly enough to post in a preschool. Heck, it could even make the cover of Reader’s Digest and not offend anybody,” the TSA noted on its blog.

As far as I can tell, this is an accurate capture of the image a TSA agent would see using this scanner technology.

 

[rudder]

that pic you posted looks bs to me

http://boardingarea.com/blogs/stuckattheairport/files/2008/05/tsa-release-images-2-050808-726403.jpg

http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/24/body-scanner-capable-of-detecting-hostile-intent/
http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/what-the-tsas-new-bo.html

I guess there are many different manufacturers. It is safe to say however that the TSA will go with the low bid scanners and produce images like the one you have shown.

 

[StageLeft]

I believe the crotch area and face are automatically blurred by the software.

Sweet, well as long as nobody thinks to hide a bomb in their underwear we'll be good to go.

 

[wiretap]

Some of the images you guys are linking to are from the first gen older machines from 2008. The image in the original post is the newest generation machine that is going to be installed at airports across America (and other countries in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc.) Except, the images captured are several megapixels.

 

[cubeless]

http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/24/body-scanner-capable-of-detecting-hostile-intent/
http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/what-the-tsas-new-bo.html

the stuff about the face scanner at the bottom of the page is pretty crazy, too...

no wonder ge stock is up 7% the past couple days... they're gonna make billions on this stuff...

 

[MotF Bane]

Sweet, well as long as nobody thinks to hide a bomb in their underwear we'll be good to go.

Yeah, nobody would ever be that crazy. Wait...

 

[MotF Bane]

You forgot the poll. And yes, I'd hit it.

This.

 

[rudder]

Sweet, well as long as nobody thinks to hide a bomb in their underwear we'll be good to go.

Good one!

But this has me thinking. Coke smugglers have long has people swallowing condoms full of the drug to pass through customs. A terrorist could do the same, taking a box of exlax immediately before boarding a long international flight. Unless of course the laxative doesn't kick in until the last hour of the flight and no one is allowed to visit the toilet.

 

[wiretap]

Well if that happened, we'd have to get a colonoscopy before boarding an aircraft.

 

[spidey07]

Good one!

But this has me thinking. Coke smugglers have long has people swallowing condoms full of the drug to pass through customs. A terrorist could do the same, taking a box of exlax immediately before boarding a long international flight. Unless of course the laxative doesn't kick in until the last hour of the flight and no one is allowed to visit the toilet.

There was an attack on a prominent middle eastern country leader within the last year or two from a terrorist who basically swallowed the bomb.

 

[Robor]

How soon until all passengers are stripped, searched, and given standard uniforms to ride in the plane? Of course no carry-ons of any sort would be allowed.

 

[waggy]

heh yeah porn machines. What about when children go through them? are the poeple runing the machine going to get nailed for child porn?

 

[Schadenfroh]

How soon until all passengers are stripped, searched, and given standard uniforms to ride in the plane? Of course no carry-ons of any sort would be allowed.

They will then switch to surgically implanted explosives.

Or, they could just shove it up their ass:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml

Taking a trick from the narcotics trade - which has long smuggled drugs in body cavities - Asieri had a pound of high explosives, plus a detonator inserted in his rectum.