Boston Airport Replacing X-ray Body Scanners

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 5, 2012 @05:22AM from the we-have-all-kinds-of-light-waves-to-blast-you-with dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "Boston's Logan International Airport is in the process of replacing its X-ray body scanners with millimeter-wave ones. According to the article, nine of the new scanners have been installed already, and ultimately 27 of these scanners will replace the 17 X-ray backscatter scanners that were installed in March of 2010. The new devices are 'being installed come with software that replaces "passenger-specific images" — or nearly naked views of travelers — with generic outlines that highlight only anomalies such as belts, jewelry, wallets — or guns or bombs.' Perhaps this will help TSA workers avoid being part of a cancer cluster. Some speculate that TSA will ultimately eliminate all of its X-ray body scanners."

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Re:Who makes them? by Joce640k · 2012-10-05 05:59 · Score: 4, Informative

Here's the citations, I'm sure you left them out by accident...
Michael Chertoff, George Soros

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Re:Interesting by parkinglot777 · 2012-10-05 06:16 · Score: 5, Informative

I think that has already happened before... http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=573 Not a pleasant outcome though... :(
Re:Except.... by claar · 2012-10-05 08:45 · Score: 4, Informative

Whoever marked this as flamebait should read this article posted by numbius above. Worth study, it seems.

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