Scary: NYPD to deploy device to see under your clothes...

Hmm...

Via Daily News:

Get ready for scan-and-frisk.

The NYPD will soon deploy new technology allowing police to detect guns carried by criminals without using the typical pat-down procedure, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Wednesday.

The department just received a machine that reads terahertz — the natural energy emitted by people and inanimate objects — and allows police to view concealed weapons from a distance.

 

 

TSA Screener Heartache: Naked Scanners Going Away...

How will TSA recruit without offering the opportunity to view naked scanners? I guess they will have to push the crotch groping...

Via AP:

Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away.

The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by June because the company that makes them can't fix the privacy issues. The other airport body scanners, which produce a generic outline instead of a naked image, are staying.

The government rapidly stepped up its use of body scanners after a man snuck explosives onto a flight bound for Detroit on Christmas day in 2009.

At first, both types of scanners showed travelers naked. The idea was that security workers could spot both metallic objects like guns as well as non-metallic items such as plastic explosives. The scanners also showed every other detail of the passenger's body, too.

The TSA defended the scanners, saying the images couldn't be stored and were seen only by a security worker who didn't interact with the passenger. But the scans still raised privacy concerns. Congress ordered that the scanners either produce a more generic image or be removed by June.

TSA whistle-blower: TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images...

If you haven't already suspected this kind of abuse was true, you are a clueless idiot...

A former TSA screener turned blogger who is now causing embarrassment for the federal agency has revealed that TSA officers routinely laugh at and make fun of passengers’ nude body scanner images in back rooms.

In a blog entitled Taking Sense Away, the anonymous ex-TSA worker reveals how he, “Witnessed light sexual play among officers, a lot of e-cigarette vaping, and a whole lot of officers laughing and clowning in regard to some of your nude images, dear passengers.”

The revelation was in response to a reader who asked, “Tell us, please, what really happens in that private room and why the TSA does not want it seen in public nor recorded.”

The ex-TSA screener also ridiculed the existence of I.O. rooms (image operator rooms) where naked images produced by body scanners are viewed by TSA agents.

7 naked Aids activists storm Boehner's office

Rep. Barney Frank most aroused... 

at least 7 naked #AIDS activists inside Boehner's office protesting budget cuts, >50 right outside office in hallway twitter.com/VOCALNewYork/s…
— VOCAL-NY (@VOCALNewYork) November 27, 2012

Many people reporting backscatter machines not in use today at many airports

Image from Gizmodo.

It seems TSA has a plan to thwart the flier protest (opt-out day) against naked scanners and groping pat downs. They turned the machines off and did normal pat downs in many airports. This is conclusive proof the new security techniques are for security theater and/or the enrichment of favored government contractors who are selling the new equipment. If they were really necessary to keep fliers safe, they would have been in high gear on the busiest travel day of the year. You can bet they will be back to full speed with the new machines and procedures tomorrow.

Shocker: Naked Scanner CEO Deepak Chopra is an Obama buddy

He traveled with President Obama on his recent trip to India.

Public Intelligence.net reported, via The Daily Paul:

“OSI Systems is the owner of Rapiscan Systems which manufactures the Secure 1000, one of the most commonly used backscatter x-ray machines. And, no it is not the Deepak Chopra you’re thinking of.

OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India
HAWTHORNE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that Deepak Chopra, Chairman and CEO, was selected to accompany US President, Barack Obama, to Mumbai and attended the US India Business Entrepreneurship meeting, which was held by the US India Business Council (US IBC). The goal of the meeting was to promote further trade between US and India….”

The Video TSA Never Wants You to See

The images TSA show as demonstrations of millimeter body scans are inverted. If you invert them again, you get graphic nude images. Calling these images a virtual strip search doesn't do them justice. The difference visually between the virtual strip search and an actual strip search are negligible. The video below inverts some of the images that have been released. You are going to be shocked.

Warning: Do not play this video if graphic female nudity will offend you.


Remember, these are low resolution images. TSA screeners will have access to higher resolution images. The manufacturers admit the scanners are accurate enough to show intimate piercings and other genitalia features.

“Beyond that, they show intimate piercings, catheters and the form of breasts and penises.

Those features could be blocked out, but that isn't going to happen because it would affect detection capabilities..

Cheryl Johnson, general manager of the Office of Transport Security, said:' It will show the private parts of people, but what we've decided is that we're not going to blur those out, because it severely limits the detection capabilities. '

Would you submit your wife and children to this?

Want to know what the TSA screener really sees when you step into a backscatter imaging device?

Graphic Image Warning

Here is a screen capture of the 'fuzzy' cartoon-like image TSA shows on their demonstration video.


Here is what TSA is really seeing when you get in a Rapidscan Secure 1000 security scanner. (Click image for larger view)


Here is a little larger image.


Now you know why the new imaging machines are derided as "d*ick measuring devices".

New Hi-Tech Scanners Would Not Have Detected the Underpants Bomber

Many are advocating the new "millimetre-wave" body scanners as the ultimate preventive measure to stop attacks such as the one attempted by the underpants bomber. These scanners use waves to create a three-dimensional virtual naked image of passengers. They have been opposed by some due to privacy concerns. A British expert who helped develop the scanners for airport use claims they wouldn't have detected this type of device anyway. Think about it for a minute. If the devices don't see clothing, they don't see low density objects such as powders and chemicals. They are designed for higher density objects such as metal knives, guns and dense plastic such as C4 explosive. This leaves us with a couple options. We can show up at the airport wearing hospital gowns and prepared for a body cavity search or we can start profiling passengers like the Israelis do. The Israelis haven't had a successful airline attack in decades, but they do profile and conduct extensive interviews of some passengers.

The Independent reported:

Since the attack was foiled, body-scanners, using "millimetre-wave" technology and revealing a naked image of a passenger, have been touted as a solution to the problem of detecting explosive devices that are not picked up by traditional metal detectors – such as those containing liquids, chemicals or plastic explosive.

But Ben Wallace, the Conservative MP, who was formerly involved in a project by a leading British defence research firm to develop the scanners for airport use, said trials had shown that such low-density materials went undetected.

Tests by scientists in the team at Qinetiq...