Naked In the Airport

Oh No! Look Who's Naked In the Airport ***** It's YOU!

Or, it could be you soon. The Transportation Security Administration is testing a new type of X-ray scanner that virtually strips away your clothing so the security screeners can determine at a glance if you're carrying a concealed weapon, reports The Associated Press. There's just one glitch. The view the screener gets is rather revealing, shall we say.

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The problem is that this machine works too well. To demonstrate that, the very brave Susan Hallowell, director of the TSA security laboratory, threw her modesty out the window and stepped into the special X-ray booth so the world could see the results. "It does basically make you look fat and naked, but you see all this stuff," Hallowell admitted to AP. The "stuff" is the fake bomb and gun she was carrying under her clothing. The TSA wants to modify the machines so there is an electronic fig leaf that would make sensitive body parts fuzzy or even distort the image of the body so it's not quite so graphic. Randal Null, the agency's chief technology officer, told AP another option would be to restrict the screener to a booth so no passing peepers can see the image.

Pilot programs will be launched at several airports this year. The machine has already been tested with volunteers at Orlando International Airport, but the results were mixed. Some were uncomfortable with the technology, but other travelers said it was far nicer than having a screener pat them down. At least one person thinks we, the public, won't like this one bit. "The public is willing to accept a certain amount of scrutiny at the airport, but there are clearly limits to the degree of invasion that is acceptable," David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, told AP. "It's hard to understand why something this invasive is necessary."

 

For this kind of a smart think you know it all remark I hain't explaining it.
If You're so smart figure it out for your self .You don't need my help! QUOTE]Originally posted by PsychDoc
lbrown59, go ahead and finish the connection so that we all can see what this has to do with credit (the topic of this board). Otherwise, we can just post our best lasagne recipes. Thanks!

Doc [/QUOTE]