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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America's downward spiral by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-05 05:48 · Score: 0, Troll

The majority of the American public approves of the TSA and their tactics. If you want to fix this broken system, fix the people that continue to support it. That means kicking your neighbor in the balls when they say or do anything in support of the TSA. That means slapping your girlfriend when she says something retarded like "if it means I arrive safely then it's okay".
The morons in this country who think the TSA is a good idea must be dealt with or we have no hope of seeing liberty again.