New wrinkle in the opposition to TSA body scanners

[David43515]

A blogger who has been opposing the TSA`s use of body scanner tech has upped the anti by pointing out that any idiot can render them useless with nothing more than a needle and thread. And he posts video to prove it. It`s one of those things that is so simple that you shake your head in disbelief. But it could mean that all the millions of dollars spent on installing the machines in the first place was a waste, or it means that the machines in place will require a big software overhaul.
Here`s the link.

http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.c...et-anything-past-the-tsas-nude-body-scanners/

 

[Big Don]

Interesting. Anyone who thinks, must admit federalizing rent a cops was a really stupid idea.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Interesting. Anyone who thinks, must admit federalizing rent a cops was a really stupid idea.

Right now, there's a guy in Israel going "No ****. I told you stupid Americans that 10 years ago."

 

[Bob Hubbard]

[h=2]TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures?[/h] Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 08, @07:06PM
from the if-you-don't-have-anything-good-to-say dept.
OverTheGeicoE writes "When anti-TSA activist Jonathan Corbett exposed a severe weakness in TSA's body scanners, one would expect the story to attract a lot of media attention. Apparently TSA is attempting to stop reporters from covering the story. According to Corbett, at least one reporter has been 'strongly cautioned' by TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz not to cover the story. If TSA is worried that this is new information they need to suppress to keep it away from terrorists, that horse may have left the barn years ago. Corbett's demonstration may just be confirmation of a 2010 paper in the Journal of Transportation Security that concluded that 'an object such as a wire or a boxcutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible' to X-ray scanners."

 

[Big Don]

TSA 'Warning' Media About Reporting On Body Scanner Failures?

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 08, @07:06PM
from the if-you-don't-have-anything-good-to-say dept.
OverTheGeicoE writes "When anti-TSA activist Jonathan Corbett exposed a severe weakness in TSA's body scanners, one would expect the story to attract a lot of media attention. Apparently TSA is attempting to stop reporters from covering the story. According to Corbett, at least one reporter has been 'strongly cautioned' by TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz not to cover the story. If TSA is worried that this is new information they need to suppress to keep it away from terrorists, that horse may have left the barn years ago. Corbett's demonstration may just be confirmation of a 2010 paper in the Journal of Transportation Security that concluded that 'an object such as a wire or a boxcutter blade, taped to the side of the body, or even a small gun in the same location, will be invisible' to X-ray scanners."

It is interesting that they are simultaneously trying to suppress his free speech when the information is already published and in the public domain.

 

[Carol]

Maybe a fluke? Ok, let’s try again at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport through one of the TSA’s newest machines: a millimeter wave scanner with automated threat detection built-in.

Electronic threat detection is just that -- threats are detectedelectronically. The eye and judgement of a human being is not required to actually detect the threat. Human beings are certainly required to for questioning or detention, but the actual threat detection takes place by using some nifty industrial crystals and a whole pile of computer algorithms. He had an empty metal case -- unless his empty case was made of lead, that would not have triggered a "hit" on the threat detection system. (Lead isn't a threat per se, but lead can hide materials that are a threat, such as radioactive metals).

 

[Bob Hubbard]

It is interesting that they are simultaneously trying to suppress his free speech when the information is already published and in the public domain.

"Genie, get back in your bottle".

 

[ballen0351]

They wont fix anything. Now they will just spend another 100 billion dollars on something else. All that was done here was added another loan to the chinese

 

[Makalakumu]

TSA Threatens MSM Reporters over Coverage of the Failed Body Scanner Story

Two mainstream media reporters have revealed that the TSA has “strongly cautioned” them not to cover the story of an engineer revealing major flaws in the agency’s $1 billion dollar body scanner program.

The cat is out of the bag...