EPIC Uncovers: Mobile Scanners Not 'Certified People Scanners'

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 1, 2011 @08:02AM from the move-along-citizens-oh-wait dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center received more FOIA documents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding mobile x-ray scanners (a.k.a. Z Backscatter Vans). We've discussed these devices before. Perhaps the most interesting part is slide #11 ('Disclaimer About Scanning People') on page 6 of this PDF explaining that the radiation output of these devices is too high to comply with ANSI N43.17. In other words, they output too much radiation even by TSA's questionable standards for airport body scanners. Regardless, the slide ends with the author stating that the ANSI standard 'is not applicable to covert operations.' What might that assertion have meant to the presentation's intended audience?"

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Take It by newsman220 · 2011-09-01 08:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Cancer in the defense of freedom is not cancer at all.
1. Re:Take It by Shemmie · 2011-09-01 08:15 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's a good old de Freedom Lump!
2. Re:Take It by S.O.B. · 2011-09-01 09:40 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If we don't get cancer then the terrorists win.
  
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Does someone have the original? by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2011-09-01 08:10 · Score: 3, Funny

"the ANSI standard 'is not applicable to covert operations.' " parses alright. Still, for certainty of context, I'd like to read this in the original German language.

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