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TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies. Allegedly, women with 'cute bodies' were directed through the body scanners up to three times over by female agents, who appeared to be acting on a request from male agents viewing the scans in a separate room. Apparently this was done because the scans were 'blurry,' possibly due to autofocus problems with agents' smartphone cameras." After hearing the claims, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced plans to introduce legislation that would require the presence of "passenger advocates" at airports to deal with complaints like these.
I'm shocked to find out gambling is going on at Rick's!
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/0315214/female-passengers-say-they-were-targeted-for-tsa-body-scanners
"Besides having to remove our shoes, the volume limitations regarding liquids and gels in carry-on baggage has become a major hassle in the world of post 9-11 airport security. Hopefully, however, we may soon be able to once again bring our big bottles of water and tubes of toothpaste aboard airliners in our overnight bags. Britain's Cobalt Light Systems has developed a scanner called the INSIGHT100, that uses laser light to assess the liquid contents of containers, even if those containers are opaque."
I don't get this ability to scan through an opaque container. They claim a false positive rate of 0.5%, which I'd love to see field tested. It would also probably bottleneck security checkpoints even more since everyone would now be bringing liquids rather than most people being smart enough to dump their bottle of water before going through and buying even more expensive water on the other side of the checkpoint.
http://www.gizmag.com/insight100-liquid-container-laser-scanner/21443/
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/14/1315255/laser-scanner-may-allow-passengers-to-take-bottled-drinks-on-planes-again
I'm shocked to find out gambling is going on at Rick's!
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/0315214/female-passengers-say-they-were-targeted-for-tsa-body-scanners
"Besides having to remove our shoes, the volume limitations regarding liquids and gels in carry-on baggage has become a major hassle in the world of post 9-11 airport security. Hopefully, however, we may soon be able to once again bring our big bottles of water and tubes of toothpaste aboard airliners in our overnight bags. Britain's Cobalt Light Systems has developed a scanner called the INSIGHT100, that uses laser light to assess the liquid contents of containers, even if those containers are opaque."
I don't get this ability to scan through an opaque container. They claim a false positive rate of 0.5%, which I'd love to see field tested. It would also probably bottleneck security checkpoints even more since everyone would now be bringing liquids rather than most people being smart enough to dump their bottle of water before going through and buying even more expensive water on the other side of the checkpoint.
http://www.gizmag.com/insight100-liquid-container-laser-scanner/21443/
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/02/14/1315255/laser-scanner-may-allow-passengers-to-take-bottled-drinks-on-planes-again
