I'd hate to think what would happen if somehow naked pictures of governors/senators and their families got out, after having gone through these devices.

More complication and useless technology.

One person who understands human psychology layered through the airport would easily catch people, simple questions that can clllarify if someone is nervous or has something to hide. When I go through most Western airports I find the security teams behaving very blase, they dont actually ask questions to you and just look at the luggage but not in the eyes.

Look at how Israel does it.

I don't think that's an image of an actual body scanner. Looks very fishy to me, and the fact that they list Bild.de as their source almost confirms my doubts.

Perhaps, I originally saw this on a "reputable news source" but cannot find where it was.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I see an opportunity for a whole new sector of porn. (I love what happens when you try and sign up for this site)

BOGUS I say

I've just gone and grabbed all the LEGIT photos from these machines I could find and inverted them... and guess what?

They look NOTHING like what they show:

this one
this one

I'm not a particularly big fan of these scanners, but I have hatred for dicks who make up shit and present it as real on the web.

Just try to find an ACTUAL image from a scanner (not an image on someone's blog) and invert it and see whether it looks anything LIKE 'real colour'.

BAH

I think you might be right SPOCO2, with a couple qualifications (1) the images from various scanner models seem to look different from each other and (2) Photoshop certainly got a few of the examples I found CLOSER to normal, so the potential for objectionable outcome might exist still... but I think you are right that this particularly real example might be BS

You have to consider, major news outlets may find the bluish, more life-like xray images to be too graphic for their site/channels, so it wouldn't outside the realm of possibility for them to darken, desaturate and alter the images a bit.

Less ubiquitous non-news outlets seem to use the higher resolution blue images that seem like they'd make a nude image if you made a negative adjustment the image.
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20071015/body-scanning-machine-being-tested/

http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2010/01/advance-imaging-technology-storing.html

This is the TSA's response to saving and exporting images from these machines used in the airports. At the end of the article it says, "On a slightly unrelated note, there are many different inaccurate images circulating out there. Below, you will see accurate examples of what our officers see while using advanced imaging technology. Anything else you see is inaccurate."

The images (available through the link) are millimeter wave and backscatter technology.

>> ^blankfist:
You have to consider, major news outlets may find the bluish, more life-like xray images to be too graphic for their site/channels, so it wouldn't outside the realm of possibility for them to darken, desaturate and alter the images a bit.
Less ubiquitous non-news outlets seem to use the higher resolution blue images that seem like they'd make a nude image if you made a negative adjustment the image.
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20071015/body-scanning-machine-being
-tested/


Nope... I did the negative on that, and it just looks like a dark shadow on white rather than the other way around. People are far too willing to believe anything that people post and say is true.