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More on "naked scanners" at airports

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Been through what is now called a "naked scanner"? They are really "backscatter scanners." So innocuous sounding. But, naked scanner is appropriately descriptive. Get this from a German website: "What can the 'naked' scanner really see? Pregnancy, intimate piercings, genitals..." I tried embedding the link, but it didn't work, so here it is: http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/12/31/pregnancy-body-piercings-genitals/what-can-naked-scanners-really-see.html. Note that it is from December. Wonder why I didn't see it sooner? More to the point, since Germans are not as sexually repressed as Americans, you can see the image on the website of a woman which clearly shows her nipples and pubic area. You can also see a gun hidden in the small of her back, which would be found by conventional technology...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on October 10, 2010 (boomark / email).