Wouldn't that render the exploit this guy found obsolete?
I'll let you figure out why building a backing that is made up of different materials that reflect radiation in a checkerboard pattern won't work.
Uh. Why won't it work? From what I recall of the images, they're sort of gray-scale. The brightness of a body drops off as it falls away from the camera (i.e. the outline of your body is a darker gray than, say, your forward-facing bellybutton region), since, presumably, as we wrap around to the sides of your body, more energy is bounced out to the sides than to the 'camera'.
So, I assume it's depicting the amount of radiation reflected back to the 'camera', right? So, if you make a checkerboard background of materials that bounce differing amounts of energy back (either due to composition of the tile or its angle), why wouldn't it work?
I really wish I had time to tilt at this particular windmill, so I'm very grateful that this fellow is being so relentless.
Even if I got no donations, I would self-fund this suit, so no worries about donating more... anything anyone wants to contribute is much appreciated!
[1]http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners....
The whole tone of this blog post though really rubs me the wrong way. it comes across as a post from defensive asshole teen who was caught looking like a fool, as opposed to a federal agency funded with BILLIONS of free money they take from the citizens which they spend in ways which are completely unaccountable to said citizens, and the results of which inconvenience, for no reason, the same citizens -- with methods which are proven to be lacking to say the least.
I am so tired of security theater. These people are fucking dolts, amateurs themselves and are skimming billions of dollars from programs we actually need; like science, research, education and health.
FUCK the TSA.
How many failing bridges could have been replaced with the $60 billion we've spent on the TSA? Those would be some nice skilled jobs for people dropping out of our flagging manufacturing sector...
Body scanner proven ineffective video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idICUSiGcqo
Body scanner has 54% false positive rate https://www.propublica.org/article/sweating-bullets-body-sca...
Cost of the body scanners http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/03/07/what_tsa_se...
Some pretty interesting numbers here:
"Of these, 18 airports handle fewer than 1,000 passengers daily but were equipped with 21 scanners at an estimated installed cost of $7.3 million to screen 9,538 passengers per day."
I think these machines are a waste of money and the threat of terrorism vastly overblown in general, but if you make the assumption that the machines are desirable and useful, you can't make an exception for small airports.
However, I would like to post an excerpt from the last link that I shared.
"TSA acknowledges that it takes 10-12 seconds per passenger to go through the scanner while only 2 seconds is needed for the metal detector. Since the scanners have a 54% false positive rate, approximately half of those using the scanners receive some form of pat-down, further slowing the process. When hundreds of people are in line, that additional 8 to 30 seconds each adds up, resulting in substantial delays.
So while TSA claims that the scanners speed up the screening process, the opposite, in fact, is true."
This species can detect all kinds of weapons, explosives, drugs, everything.
It can even tell if a person has a contagious DISEASE.
And best of all its cheaper to train and maintain than dogs, and more friendly/less intimidating for the passengers.
These are already being used in some African countries to find landmines that dogs and electronic detectors can't see.
And google ethiopian rat, is not that ugly/scary like black rats and others.
We've put incomplete tech and massive room for human error in between people and air planes. It's worse than security theater, it's a full digression in our our actual security. We're actually less safe than we were 15 years ago. If this man's video is to be trusted, it's now easier than ever to bring a box cutter onto an airplane. Boggles the mind.
