One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

gizmodo.com ^ | 11/16/10 | gizmodo

[Nachum]

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.

We understand that it will be controversial to release these photographs. But identifying features have been eliminated. And fortunately for those who walked through the scanner in Florida last year, this mismanaged machine used the less embarrassing imaging technique.

[BikerJoe]

Airlines recognize the necessity to treat passengers at least as Human,

Not according to some of the seat pitches I've experienced lately...

[CodeToad]

This is an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. If the government can strip search us in the name of “security” then they can do anything they want. They can demand you stand outide your home each night, arms out, for you and your home to be scanned before going to bed.

I actually had a guy at work say that since some people are opting not to fly but drive then the government should setup checkpoints along the freeways and make those people be scanned. He claimed that if they are opting out of airport scanning then they might be terrorists and we would be “safer” if we scanned all interstate travelers.

Does anyone really thing this airport strip searching is going to stop at the airports?

I would rather abolish this government than to allow it to continue along the path it is on.

[LibLieSlayer]

Good to know!

LLS

[hans56]

you forget to add

“I only do same gender searches”

[RetiredNavy]

Bookmark

[84rules]

Has anyone actually seen the hi-res images that come from the body-scanning machines? The only people who would possibly get turned-on by those images are fifteen-year-old nerd computer geeks who haven't been within ten feet of the opposite sex unless it was a relative of theirs.

Also, while I understand the complaints some people have about this procedures, what seems to be distinctly missing from those complaints is alernative security protections that will accomplish the same goal without the invasion of privacy.

Of course, groping the subject should be outlawed completely and Muslim women should be made subject to the same search as everyone else.

[mirkwood]

Larry the cable guy gets searched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjfQbNZAO64&feature=fvsr

[crosshairs]

Does anyone else think Larry the Cable Guy looks a little like Brett Favre in the face?

[ml/nj]

LOL !!

ML/NJ

[Kozak]

[rurgan]

Great post Diogenesis.

The TSA is doing to our freedoms what the EPA is doing to the U.S.A's economy.

Abolish or repeal all the laws that authorize ALL these government agencies. Repeal every law to 1890 = problems solved one and all.

Also Democrats are trying to pass the Dream act Amnesty for illegals NOW in the Lame duck session. We should email Rush, Drudge, call Senators etc. 99% of the American people don't even know the Democrats are trying to pass the Dream act:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627956/posts?page=1

[Kozak]

Oh I don't know...

High res image

Lots of guys wouldn't mind looking at something like this...

[Freedom56v2]

Send this information to DeMint or call his office in DC and ask where you can send the info so that DeMint gets it before the TSA hearing.

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I am glad there will be a hearing on this executive fiat...this was dear leader’s mandate after the undie bomber...does anyone know when the hearing will be? I want to weigh in. The scanners are a violation of our privacy and civil rights on so many levels. I thot the scanners were to be used as backup to metal scanning.

[rurgan]

You trust government and government buearocrats?

Government must leave us alone.

The idiocy of government gives Muslims a pass when Muslims are the ones doing all the terrorism. But all Americans are and their children are seen naked. Oh why go on. I KNOW government doesn’t work.

Repeal all laws to 1890 when we had a limited government in America.

[84rules]

They must be some pretty desperate guys if they are relying on that for their fantasies and gratifications. I still think that maybe some inexperienced and totally geekified teens might like it, but there are plenty of places people can go to get better images.

[The Great RJ]

My first reaction in seeing these images is what a waste of taxpayer’s money. How a TSA agent is to determine from these fuzzy images whether or not the person scanned has a weapon or bomb is beyond me. They look like B&W TV images from pre-cable days when you used rabbit years and aluminum foil to try and pull in a distant station. If this is the state of the art in scanning it is a total joke.

[Freedom56v2]

I also read that Michael Chertoff, heard that one of the scanner companies and former director of homeland security lobbied for these...talk about conflict of interest....

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122018593

[Kozak]

Oh, I think you just described the kind of guy who works for an agency like the TSA.

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJgfl8jxyw0
Same junk - different administration ...

[grady]

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