T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy

Quite a few readers are sending in stories about ThruVision's products, slated to be demonstrated in Britain next week, that are claimed to use Terahertz radiation ("T-rays") to detect foreign objects under clothing, without revealing body details, from a distance of 25 meters and while the subject is in motion. T-rays lie on the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwaves, and are the subject of lively research efforts worldwide. ThruVision says it developed its products in cooperation with the European Space Agency.

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[c6gunner]

As for the "airplane as missile" threat, that is trivially handled: Install a locked, secure, cockpit-door, end of story. It's not as if: "Fly the plane into that building, or I'll kill this passenger" will work. (the pilots would just refuse, it makes no sense to kill everyone, including that passenger to prevent the killing of a passenger)

Maybe not. On the other hand "I'm going to kill one passenger every minute until you open this door" would probably work. Also, "I'm going to set off my bomb if you don't open this door in 30 seconds" is pretty much guaranteed to work.

Besides, I have the same ridicolous restrictions when flying on a 20-seat plane flying say Anda - Bergen, there isn't even a potential target within the RANGE of the airplane. If someone *does* take over the plane, best they could do would be killing everyone aboard

Imagine that - airlines wanting to prevent the unnecessary deaths of 20 passengers, highly valued pilots, and the destruction of a multi-million-dollar aircraft. Silly buggers.

Frankly, if your goal in life is to manage to somehow kill 20 people, there are easier ways. Defending against them all ain't worth it, because any marginal increase in security is more than counterbalanced by MASSIVE losses of freedom.

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This is why nobody has asked for your opinion.

I at least partly agree with you - I think the best way to stop terrorists and murderers is to pass concealed carry laws and encourage a culture of gun ownership. It's no coincidence that most mass-killings occur in "gun free zones". However, wild gun battles are a bit of a bad idea when you're inside a pressurized fuselage at 30,000 feet. The only logical alternative is to ensure that nobody brings any weapons on board.

if the adiminstration cared about real risk they should start the "war on diabetes" or "war on traffic" or "war on obesity", all of which kill more people a month than terrorism does a decade

Ohhh, I know! Even better, let's have a war on old age! Surely if we get enough hippies protesting against it, we can get old age and death-by-natural-causes to be declared illegal. Then we can have a true utopia, free of all worry!