"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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