retroremakes
January 22nd, 2010, 18:50
Well, let's hope the bad guys weren't watching German television last week. A demonstration of one of those highfalutin—and highly invasive (http://gizmodo.com/5443901/is-it-this-easy-to-pull-straight-nude-pics-from-airport-scanners-%5Bnsfw%5D)—full-body airport scanners caught a Swiss Army Knife and a cellphone, but none of the, uh, bomb components.
The big reveal comes at around 2:07, and is moderately to extremely terrifying. As Schneier on Security (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/german_tv_on_th.html) points out, the subject didn't get scanned from the side. That's reassuring until you see that there were still a few front-facing explosive bits that got through, and he didn't even have to hide anything in a body cavity.
So, to sum up: full-body scanners are equal parts creepy and ineffective, the end. [Schneier on Security (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/german_tv_on_th.html) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/naked-airport-scanne.html)]
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So, to sum up: full-body scanners are equal parts creepy and ineffective, the end. [Schneier on Security (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/german_tv_on_th.html) via Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/naked-airport-scanne.html)]
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