Tourist to USA will be stripped bare with X-ray machine
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LEAVE YOUR DAUGHTERS AND WIFE AT HOME....
Air travelers stripped bare with X-ray machine
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-05-15-airport-xray-bottomstrip_x.htm
By Thomas Frank, USA TODAY
The agency in charge of the nation's air security expects later this year to begin using a controversial X-ray machine that will show airport screeners a clear picture of what's under passengers' clothes — whether weapons or just bare skin.
The new system makes it easy to see possibly dangerous devices.
Rapiscan Systems
Screeners plan to test the "backscatter" machines at several U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says. The refrigerator-sized machines are considered a breakthrough in scanning technology but have been labeled "a virtual strip search" by the American Civil Liberties Union. (Related story: Airports test 'futureworld' devices)
Security workers using the machines can see through clothes and peer at whatever may be hidden in undergarments, shirts or pants. The images also paint a revealing picture of a person's nude body.
The devices can potentially be used to screen hundreds of millions of air travelers each year, although TSA says more study is needed to determine how the devices may be used at U.S. airports. The agency declined to say when and where it expects to test the machines.
Backscatter technology has been waiting on the sidelines for nearly four years but seems poised now to move to the forefront of aviation security. The machines are already used by U.S. Customs agents at 12 airports to screen passengers suspected of carrying drugs. They're also getting a test run at a terminal in London Heathrow Airport, the first major airport to use them.
The ACLU says the scanners invade personal privacy. "This leads directly to a surveillance society," says Barry Steinhardt, who runs the group's technology program.
But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate subcommittee last month that he wants to employ the technology and doesn't want an "endless debate" over privacy issues.
Security consultant Douglas Laird says the machines are essential to spot explosives, which aren't detected by metal detectors.
The $100,000 machines bounce low-radiation X-rays off a person's skin to produce photo-like computer images of metal, plastic and organic materials hidden under clothes, says American Science and Engineering. The TSA is testing its BodySearch machine.
FUN TIMEs with Air-stewardess.. hehehe.... -
hugh haffner in disguise lol
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wa lau..then the screeners cannot be guys de lor
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Relax USA very fair in their procedures one....They got male and female officials on duty at the same time ..so don worried...but i guess i will be applying to be a screener soon....wish me luckOriginally posted by hatemeifuwantto:wa lau..then the screeners cannot be guys de lor
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I'm sure perverts and Pedophiles will be lining up......
By the way, having male and females on duty is desides the point.. both can still view.... -
if the security see this kind of picture also will get high, I have nothing to say... In USA, you can walk into a strip club in almost every state...
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True, by the feeling is different.. for example peeping and paying. It's the excitement of prohabitity.
Of course, in time they will be Sian already, but what about if that's your wife, GF and children ?? I mean we're asians right. ? -
For goodness sake.. look at the picture above... it's just an x-ray of the outline... you don't see no birds and bees. Plus, I can tell you asians are not very hot in USA.
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lol...
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Nope disagree... done duty at IMFOriginally posted by mayday80:For goodness sake.. look at the picture above... it's just an x-ray of the outline... you don't see no birds and bees. Plus, I can tell you asians are not very hot in USA.
X-ray machines intensity can be adjusted... what the pics shown are for selling pitch, so as not to offend... by simply increasing the intensity slightly.. you will be naked.
How about underage girls.. or when your wife and daughter is super jude..
Imagine if the screener were to lower the intensity slightly..
and remember all the craze about x-ray photos and videos taken by sony cameras.... all the perverts were estastic... what's the difference. -
eeweeeeeee
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anyway Americans are quite ba dao with security issues... you either live with it or you are against them
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Maybe only female screen female and male screen male...
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then people will complain of homosexuals......Originally posted by banzie:Maybe only female screen female and male screen male...
remember one thing,: you can be either a gay or a pervert.