New Airport X-Ray Shows You Naked

If you're traveling out of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix,
Ariz., be forewarned: The Transportation Security Administration
screeners are going to get a good look at you in that new
high-resolution X-ray machine they're testing. The device shows a full
body, naked image that clearly displays hidden weapons or explosives,
including those made from non-metals, such as plastics and liquids. It
also displays just about everything else the good Lord gave you.

The Associated Press reports that the new technology is called
backscatter, and although it has been around for several years it has
not been widely used as an anti-terrorism tool in the United States
because of privacy concerns. The TSA has found a way to "refine" the
machine's images so that the graphic X-rays aren't quite so X-rated.
The new technology will be up and running at Sky Harbor's Terminal 4 by
Christmas, and a handful of other airports will have the X-ray machines
in place by early 2007 as part of a nationwide pilot program. Initially
it will be used as a secondary screening measure. That means, if you set
off the alarms on the standard screening process, you'll be directed to
a second X-ray area with this new machine. Even so, the TSA will allow
you to choose a traditional pat-down search over the backscatter
technology.
The machines will be set up in such a way that only the security officer
can see the image. Images will be deleted as soon as a passenger steps
away from the machine and will not be stored or available for printing
or transmitting.

wonder if they are needing workers.

HA HA HA!!!! I'm jobless right now, hell, I'll volunteer for that!!!

lol!!... i know thats right.

Bump I like the oldies...If they could shrink it down to pocketsize everyone would want one. Can I place my order early?

haha Gotta ban that...it's nearly porn I tell you!

I heard that they might put one of those in an 'express' line at some airports. If you're willing to go through it, you get through security faster.

That is outrageous!

Sure beats a real strip search. I work with a guy that had to go through a strip search coming back in to the country. (Evidently someone with a 'similar' name was on the watch list).

Whatever the case, I'd have no problem with it. I've seen a demo of it on TV. It really is more like looking at a full body xray.

okay that sounds worse