Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
Summary: Whether you're pro these scanners or not (and putting the potential health risks aside), the idea that images can be stored on them for later viewing is disturbing. If the mechanism is there to save an image, then it'll be used, and even if that mechanism doesn't exist, it's not hard to record an image that's displayed on a screen using a camera.
This is very shocking stuff:
At the heart of the controversy over "body scanners" is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.
A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens.
So much for not being able to store, print, transmit or save the image. If you believe that, you'll believe anything ... idiots.
Here's an example of the images stored:
Note: Notice in the above image how the scanner manages to scan the guy in the background - how much energy are these scanners giving off?
it's worth noting that the gen-2 millimeter wave scanner doesn't output as detailed an image of the human body as the scanners currently in used at airports. For comparison, the image below shows the sort of output from a typical airport scanner.
Whether you're pro these scanners or not (and putting the potential health risks aside), the idea that images can be stored on them for later viewing is disturbing. If the mechanism is there to save an image, then it'll be used, and even if that mechanism doesn't exist, it's not hard to record an image that's displayed on a screen using a camera.
Additional thoughts on the TSA's screening process on Lawgarithms by my colleague Denise Howell.
How happy are you to use these scanners? What about your significant other? Children?
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RE: Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
RE: Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
That said, if a TSA agent couldn't spot that gun down the back of the woman's jeans then shesh ...
It's not the power their giving off
A radio telescope doesn't give off any power, yet it detects the amount of radio waves given off of an object so thats probally how the scanner can "see" the person in the distance.
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<i>"That said, if a TSA agent couldn't spot that gun down the back of the woman's jeans then shesh ... "</i>
How did you ever get a job writing anything for any company?
RE: Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
RE: Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
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You are correct regarding those images. I do a fair bit of travelling for work and I have been following all the complaints about the full body scanners very closely. While the actual images from the machines are quite revealing, the image above of the young lady is NOT an image from one of them. That image, which has been seen elsewhere on the web, is nothing but an inverted standard high-resolution photograph of a naked woman that has been doctored to add the outline of clothing and the firearm and cell phone.
Anyone interested in the website that disproved it can probably find it via a simple google image search.
As to the author of this article, you should really check your sources before posting fabricated images like that.
So the fake image invalidates the story? Keep up the Kook-Aid consumption.
RE: Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
Come on now1
The point is we cannot trust our government on this.
On a side note, just where did that girl have that gun shoved?
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Hope you felt the same about GW
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RE: Body scanner saved 35,000 'naked' images
Metal detectors detect guns and grenades
Until the day a terrorist or lunitic pulls a gun out on board your plane
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Depending on others for the safety of myself and my family is the among the worst ideas I've heard. I teach my family how to take action to protect themselves regardless of the circumstances. That way they at least have a chance at not waiting around for law enforcement to come and write a report about what has already transpired.
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When seconds matter, the police are just minutes away.
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How many times have you had the opportunity to stop a crime with your gun? Given the number of people in a given area and the number of fire-arm related crimes per capita, it seems very unlikely you will ever encounter the opportunity to be a hero, much less the chance to defend yourself in a surprise attack. In fact, how many times has anyone been able to use their gun to prevent such an incident?
I'm not against gun ownership, but everyone is a law-abiding citizen until they break the law. Even cops with all their training and experience with assessing tense situations, make fatal mistakes.
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you think you should be able to bring a gun on a plane!!! Doesn?t my right to LIFE trump your second amendment rights? We don?t need scanners because YOU are going to save us!! Ha ha. Once you start yakking like that you become one of them and not one of us.. sane sensible Americans who want to find the right mix to be as safe as possible without giving up to much liberties