That’s Not Plastique, It’s Silicone.
Raw Story finds this report in USA Today about the latest generation of Homeland Security devices:
Screeners plan to test the “backscatter” machines at several U.S. airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) says. The refrigerator-sized machines are considered a breakthrough in scanning technology but have been labeled “a virtual strip search” by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Security workers using the machines can see through clothes and peer at whatever may be hidden in undergarments, shirts or pants. The images also paint a revealing picture of a person’s nude body.
The devices can potentially be used to screen hundreds of millions of air travelers each year, although TSA says more study is needed to determine how the devices may be used at U.S. airports. The agency declined to say when and where it expects to test the machines.
Yes, knowing that minimum wage airport-security can see you naked on demand – that will really reassure the average traveller. Next? The soul-scanner, to check you’re ‘saved’ before you can travel.
