THIS is the sort of bullcrap I’ve been talking about:
One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans
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. … According to the TSA—and of course other agencies—images from the scanners are “automatically deleted from the system after it is cleared by the remotely located security officer.” Whatever the stated policy, it’s clear that it is trivial for operators to save images and remove them for distribution if they choose not to follow guidelines or that other employees could remove images that are inappropriately if accidentally stored.
Awesome.
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Did you see the size of the blur on guy # 4?!
My god, he’s hung like a horse!
Not only can’t you make out any details of their genitalia, you can’t even identify which scan goes with which photo of the actual person. 😀
I was expecting something along the lines of “Total Recall” here, and instead got a pile of blurry mush.
You send Pamela Anderson in front of that thing, and you wouldn’t be able to tell her from “ol’ flattop” Milla Jovovitch.
Well, the music was certainly not in the same class as the images. Any idea of the title?
Anybody read the Poul Anderson story, “Sam Hall”, where the gubmint tracks your every move?
More and more its not fiction anymore… I suppose soon we’ll be told these records are kept ‘for our own security’.
It doesn’t hurt so much being on the Do Not Fly list hearing about this stuff!
“Oh my GOD! That TSA worker uploaded grainy unrecognizable images of my own personal NAKED BODY!”
Two questions come to mind:
1. Does TSA hire adults?
2. Does TSA refuse to take action against an employee who breaks the rules?
> Does TSA hire adults?
Dunno. But note that in this specific case, it was *U.S.* *Federal* *Marshalls* who decided to break the rules/laws/trust of the public in saving 35,000 images.
> “Oh my GOD! That TSA worker uploaded grainy unrecognizable images of my own personal NAKED BODY!”
Keep in mind, this technology will only improve in image resolution. But will it make us safer? Nope.
1)I wouldn’t recognize that gal if she was mine.
2)Granted it might be embarrasing to find a nekkid pitcher of oneself on the internet. But what are the odds of one (or one’s kids, or whatever) stumbling upon that single image among the myriad online? Say EVERY TSA scan was put online. Without a searchable database of ID and/or flight numbers & times, is a particular pic apt to come to a particular person’s attention?
3)The ultimate goal is presumably real-time pass-through scanners, as in the Arnold flick. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! Seems to me that (and indeed, the current approximation) would indeed make us safer from weapons/explosives being harbored by passengers. How not? Possibly current scanners won’t “see” what’s been swallowed or otherwise inserted…which means we need an upgrade. And of course, cargo goes for the most part unscanned. Correct phrase would be, “Will it make us COMPLETELY safe? No.” But incremental matters in this case, which isn’t comparable to, say, reaching or failing to reach orbit. Don’t you think?
4)Put differently, what exactly is the objection other than one of pesonal self-consciousness (“That person, who I’ll likely NEVER SEE AGAIN, saw my JUNK! That’s tantamount to RAPE!”)? And you say LIBERALS are “touchy…”