Would you believe...?
Posted on 10/15/2008 10:22:20 PM PDT by dcwusmc
New 'strip search' full body scanners being trialled in Australia will show people's private parts, officials have admitted.
But to spare their blushes, the faces of passengers will be blurred.
Domestic travellers leaving Melbourne airport over the next six weeks will be asked to test the new security scanners that can see through clothing.
The X-ray backscatter body scanner has been described by critics as a "virtual strip search."
The scanner is similar to one that was trialled at Paddington station in London in 2006 in direct response to the tube bombings in July 2005.
Similar systems have also been tested at Gatwick airport.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I must admit, even with all of the advances in technology, I feel not one whit more secure on air travel. In point of fact, the U.S. TSA has made me feel much LESS secure, a feeling, I suspect, many in the UK share. Nor, with open borders in BOTH our countries, will we really ever STOP terrorists. So we allow these incursions into our privacy and our freedoms, all for naught. Our Benjamin Franklin once said that he who will trade essential liberty for security deserves NEITHER liberty nor security. I fear he was exactly correct.
Wouldn’t it be better just to kick the holy sh!t out of terrorists?
Ping
Yep. You got MY vote. Or introduce them to the wonderful and lovely Iron Maiden for a week or two in her embrace!
well with the new x ray, we can actually see it before we kick it.
That does it, I’m buying that extension thingy before I fly again!
I see these articles on these scanners and I just don’t get it. The density of human flesh causes a particular color to appear on the monitor. Why doesn’t the digital processing of the image just make the flesh the same color as background, so the image looks like the invisible man and just shows the stuff ATTACHED to the body, and not the body itself ?
“But to spare their blushes, the faces of passengers will be blurred.”
What’s the point? Won’t the operators be able to see the passengers’ faces before and after they’re scanned?
Everybody should just show up at the airport naked.
I imagine (hope) the operator would be in a separate room with a red button to bang on when there’s a problem.
On the positive side this might give a boost to private aviation and eventually pump up small aircraft sales.
Let me guess, Lifeguard, right?
That and make everyone eat a ham sandwich in front of the screeners before being allowed on board...problem solved.
Reminds me of my 7th grade teacher whose blouse always had chalk on the front.
That’s what the article says...
Well Duh!
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