Friday, August 22, 2014

So We Went Naked for Nothing?!?

"A team of security researchers from the University of San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins plans to reveal their own results from months of testing [the] same model of scanner"—TSA's Rapiscan full-body x-ray scanner—that made us virtually naked to TSA at airports for years, reports wired.com.

"Not only did [researchers] find that [a] weapon-hiding tactic worked; they also found that they could pull off a disturbing list of other possible tricks, such as using teflon tape to conceal weapons against someone's spine, installing malware on the scanner's console that spoofed scans, or simply molding plastic explosives around a person's body to make it nearly indistinguishable from flesh in the machine's images..."

Read the rest to find out how costly the security illusion was and where these scanners are still being used.

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