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| Do you care airport screeners can see privates | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 4 2006, 09:14 PM (1,688 Views) | |
| kenny | Dec 4 2006, 09:14 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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![]() A new full-body x-ray machine to be tested this month at a US airport has raised concerns about privacy issues with some rights advocates saying the technology amounts to a virtual strip search. The "Backscatter" machine to be used at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Arizona will enable screeners to detect non-metallic devices and objects as well as weapons on a person's body, authorities say. But critics, including the American Civil Liberties Union, say the machine can display graphic images of nude bodies and its use will pave the way to widespread abuse of the images taken, with some possibly being posted or traded on the Internet. Federal officials, however, have downplayed such concerns saying that screeners will be able to blur out a person's genitals and that the x-ray image will be erased from the screen once a passenger is cleared through the machine. The Transportation Security Officer operating the system will also not be able to print, store or transmit the image and will be viewing the x-ray in an area not visible to the public. Officials said "Backscatter" will be a voluntary option for passengers undergoing secondary screening and is an alternative to the physical pat down procedures currently conducted at security checkpoints. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/04/0...8.yi5mw8je.html |
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| kenny | Dec 4 2006, 09:20 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Will men view men and women view women? Maybe this is a good job for pedophiles. |
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| Larry | Dec 4 2006, 09:22 PM Post #3 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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I got caught in one of those things. They thought I was trying to sneak a billy club onto the plane.........
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| apple | Dec 4 2006, 09:22 PM Post #4 |
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one of the angels
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why worry.. they are just body parts. we all have them. |
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| kenny | Dec 4 2006, 09:26 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh Larry, you poor thing! Are you loosing control of your bowels again.
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| Larry | Dec 4 2006, 09:29 PM Post #6 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| kenny | Dec 4 2006, 09:52 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You people who voted yes . . . what will you do when faced with one? Not fly? |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 4 2006, 09:56 PM Post #8 |
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Fulla-Carp
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What seems intrusive about it to me is the amount of radiation. Yikes. The TSA said that the images will not be stored/ cross referenced with names- I don't believe that- it's all digital and easy enough- I guess we're just supposed to take their word for it. I don't. If that's what I have to do, you know, to fight the bad guys, I won't fly less. I already hate the experience. This can't make it much worse. I voted Yes. |
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| kenny | Dec 4 2006, 10:28 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I thing the main outrage is being able to see people's genitals. Next time I fly, I'm taking some viagra!
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| The 89th Key | Dec 4 2006, 10:49 PM Post #10 |
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Kenny, I voted yes. Although I would go through it, I do think it crosses a line. |
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 5 2006, 03:35 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Or gay people x |
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| Dewey | Dec 5 2006, 03:51 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I couldn't care less. It helps security, and I'm not so worked up about people seeing some gauzy image of my naughty bits. For Pete's sake, other total strangers have seen them with greater clarity at the YMCA, and I don't give it a second thought. I'm a fan of propriety, but within reason. Like apple said, they're just body parts, we all have 'em, so what? |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 5 2006, 04:29 AM Post #13 |
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Cheers
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I'm not against it per se, but I do think the government focuses too much on airline security. 9-11 taught us that planes can be missiles. OK, make the cockpits impregnable, and now its just a tube with 200 people on it. If I want to kill 200 people, I could do it in any shopping mall. Why spend so much energy protecting people when they are in a tube but not when they are in a box? (of course i know the answer, its because the public freaks out, but thanks for letting me vent) |
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| Frank_W | Dec 5 2006, 04:30 AM Post #14 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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S'okay. I have a big dick. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Dewey | Dec 5 2006, 04:33 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 5 2006, 05:19 AM Post #16 |
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Fulla-Carp
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There are multiple layers of problems with airline security, unexamined cargo being the most glaring, unsecured facilities, and inadequate employee screening also come to mind. Draconian measures fixating EVEN MORE on trying to find guns, knives, and knife like objects in addition to metal dectectors, portable metal detectors, patdowns, and partial strip searches is not going to make the public safer. But it will spend a lot of money, more people will get rich, the public will feel better, and privacy and human dignity will become even more foreign concepts than they already are to us. If I could vote twice in this poll I would. Yes. Yes. |
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| Riley | Dec 5 2006, 05:20 AM Post #17 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 5 2006, 05:21 AM Post #18 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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If it gets approved I think I have just identified my next career!
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 5 2006, 05:22 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Looking at naked men? x |
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| kenny | Dec 5 2006, 05:26 AM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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This technology must be expensive. Guess who ultimately pays? You and me. Why not just have people strip? Really. Same thing. |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 5 2006, 05:27 AM Post #21 |
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Cheers
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takes too much time, kenny. thats my big beef with this souped-up security. its really tiresome if you fly a lot. |
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| kenny | Dec 5 2006, 05:29 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Mandate flight suits with velcro for the public. For speed a machine could rip open the velcro. Cavity probes could be robotic to reduce humiliation. |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 5 2006, 05:30 AM Post #23 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Wrong line, MP.. I'm at the redhead station. :lol: |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 5 2006, 05:31 AM Post #24 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You know what, at the end of the day we should all be damn grateful. At least they are ACTUALLY doing things to up the security. There were so many complaints after 9/11 that airport security was not good enough, and now that they are actually finding a way to highten security measures, suddenly everyone is against it? Some people are such hyprocites. x |
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| Daniel\ | Dec 5 2006, 05:35 AM Post #25 |
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Fulla-Carp
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What matters is whether they use it. Whether they say it is voluntary today, it might not be tomorrow. Whether they say they delete the images or cannot store them, storing digital images is as hard as posting this response. |
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