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May 24, 2005
X-Ray Machines & TSA, an Update
The NYTimes now covers the story:
The Times story has lots of gory details:
"Well, you'll see basically everything," said Bill Scannell, a privacy advocate and technology consultant. "It shows nipples. It shows the clear outline of genitals."
Thwarting body-scanning technology would be simple, he argues. Because of concerns about radiation, body scanners are designed not to penetrate the skin. All that's needed is someone heavily overweight to go through the system, he said. I won't quote him directly on the details; suffice it to say he posits that a weapon or explosives pack could be tucked into flabby body folds that won't be penetrated by the scanner.
However, the paper does not mention that TSA is aware of the security risks and there are software strategies for minimizing this as I noted in my earlier post.
Updated with picture from CNet
Posted by rshah at May 24, 2005 09:23 AM
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