Been through what is now called a “naked scanner”? They are really “backscatter scanners.” So innocuous sounding. But, naked scanner is appropriately descriptive. Get this from a German website: “What can the ‘naked’ scanner really see? Pregnancy, intimate piercings, genitals…” I tried embedding the link, but it didn’t work, so here it is:
\nhttp:\/\/www.bild.de\/BILD\/news\/bild-english\/world-news\/2009\/12\/31\/pregnancy-body-piercings-genitals\/what-can-naked-scanners-really-see.html. Note that it is from December. Wonder why I didn’t see it sooner? <\/p>\n
More to the point, since Germans are not as sexually repressed as Americans, you can see the image on the website of a woman which clearly shows her nipples and pubic area. You can also see a gun hidden in the small of her back, which would be found by conventional technology. But not a bomb, or anything hidden in a body cavity. Prison inmates hide shanks and even cell phones in body cavities<\/a>. Not enough of a bomb to bring a plane down, or would it be? All it has to do is breach the fuselage at 30,000 ft and down it comes, like the PanAm 103 bombing<\/a>. That one was hidden in a radio in the luggage compartment. But I digress into next having body cavity searches to get on an American airplane. Meanwhile, back to the article:<\/p>\n How intimate are the pictures?<\/strong><\/p>\n Security advisor Hans-Detlef Dau (54, Hamburg), who sells the scanner, said: \u201cUnlike with a complete X-ray examination, the rays do not go deeply under the skin. They see only the things which lie over it, so bladed weapons and firearms as well as ceramics.<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond that, they show intimate piercings, catheters and the form of breasts and penises.<\/p>\n \u201cBut newer devices can automatically distort intimate areas in the picture.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See prior posts here<\/a> and here<\/a>, among others. Remember that last one from May where one TSA worker in Miami was sent through the device and a coworker commented on his penis size which led to a workplace assault? Was he joking, or could he really see? Apparently he really could see.<\/p>\n Sadly, TSA might be a perfect job for a voyeur if he can get scanner duty. My home airport isn’t big enough to ever have one, but I fly through DCA all the time, and the Delta concourse has one.<\/p>\n Finally, the German website mentions a company that sells pasties for going through scanners: FlyingPasties.com<\/a>. “The next time they tell you that they can’t see you naked, watch this and get back to us…” with video.<\/p>\n What are we becoming? Wearing pasties to fly? The terrorists really are winning. We’re selling our liberty out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" b2evALnk.b2WPAutP Continue reading