Two articles about the new airport scanners
The new ones that effectively removes your clothes and reveal you in all your natural glory? Well, our first story is that, when the machine is in test mode, it can send the image to a remote location. TSA said they cannot. They also say that test mode will be disabled before they will be delivered to airports and that they cannot be put in to test mode by airport TSA agents. And computers can't be hacked across the internet.
The fine article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/airport-scanners
Our second article is quite amusing. Germans, seemingly amusingly pissed off at these scanners, staged a nude (well, sorta nude) demonstration at an airport. The article has a couple of wonderful lines, including "...it’s unclear if the scanners would be able to detect explosives hidden in body cavities and would therefore likely provide only minimal security."
And "Although Amsterdam has been conducting a test pilot of full-body scanners since 2006, the armed passenger was not scanned by one of the devices before boarding his flight to Detroit. European Union regulations do not currently allow mandatory use of the equipment."
The second fine article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/german-fleshmob
The fine article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/airport-scanners
Our second article is quite amusing. Germans, seemingly amusingly pissed off at these scanners, staged a nude (well, sorta nude) demonstration at an airport. The article has a couple of wonderful lines, including "...it’s unclear if the scanners would be able to detect explosives hidden in body cavities and would therefore likely provide only minimal security."
And "Although Amsterdam has been conducting a test pilot of full-body scanners since 2006, the armed passenger was not scanned by one of the devices before boarding his flight to Detroit. European Union regulations do not currently allow mandatory use of the equipment."
The second fine article: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/german-fleshmob